I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not declining

Re:I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not dec... by coryfklein on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:58AM (#12582913)

> The solution is to make the closed question not appear in Google search results. If the same question keeps appearing the solution is to let someone answer it.

This is a great idea. Have you considered discussing it on the Meta site?

The solution would definitely have to be more nuanced - sometimes "closed" questions have useful answers on them so you wouldn't want to remove those from Google. But removing "closed" questions that provide no value would probably be an improvement.

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Re:I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not dec... by corobo on Monday September 26, 2016 @01:46PM (#12583939)

Well that's the other side of the problematic coin. The majority of my experience with SO is closed questions.

I generally consider myself a dumbass and not smart enough to figure out the rules to avoid getting topics closed, so I stick to reddit and HN (and it took years of lurking here before I started posting too!)

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