Looks like the case of snobbery outbreak right there. I mean, you can have issues with depth and precision and other stuff on SO answers - in any huge project, there are good things and there are bad things, and in fact there are tons of bad things you can pick out if the project is large enough. But ignoring the fact that lots of developers successfully use it to exchange information and enrich their knowledge and claiming it's just "some random site" is just ignoring the reality. And claiming "no one should be promoting SO in open source community at all" because it's imperfect just begs the question - ok, what should one be promoting instead? What is the perfect site which is as good an information source as SO and yet has none of its downsides? If this is not specified - in the same place - it just sounds as empty snobbery. SO is a practical tool, it's imperfect, it has obvious and known flaws - but dismissing it wholesale out of hand is only appropriate if one has better tool that solves the same problem, and better. So far I haven't seen any suggestions for that.