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Re:Stack Overflow Culture by falcolas on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:43AM (#16612140)
Ironically, a lot of Quora answers still pop up on HN/Reddit to this day as being gems of high quality answers and opinions from experts. Most of the SO answers that pop up in these same forums of the same quality have been archived as being off topic but historically significant.

i.e. these high quality but subjective answers are still being created on Quora, but not SO. That strikes me as being a problem for SO.

Re:Stack Overflow Culture by shagie on Sunday March 18, 2018 @11:09AM (#16612282)
Only if that's what you want SO to be. But how often do you find a question on how to exclude a particular artifact from a maven configuration on Quora? or finding the cause of a particular compiler issue? Or why sending a particular date through an object mapper works while another one fails? Or trying the sequence of objects to change a class path resource (URL) to a File in Java (URL - URI - Paths - toFile).

They are different sites for different purposes and different audiences. Trying to make one site to be everything for all people doesn't work well for any of them.