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Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by closeparen on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:07PM (#16937939)
No, SO has not retained quality. It’s a wasteland of promising questions that moderators turned into dead ends, to the point that finding an SO link relevant to your issue in a Google searches is practically guaranteed to leave you more frustrated than before. It pollutes the troubleshooting process with false hope.
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Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by sanderjd on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:22AM (#16938434)
Yeah, a haystack full of needles is better than a single needle in a haystack. That is to say: having the same information repeated tons of times is better than not being able to find the one canonical place the information is written.
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Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by Sacho on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:30AM (#16939272)
Are those the only two options? How about a haystack full of maybe-needles, where each answer is subtly wrong because no one has the willingness to go through and vet all of them?
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Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by closeparen on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:04PM (#16941818)
Simplest thing would be to delist closed questions from search (including Google).
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