News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by viraptor on Friday April 27, 2018 @06:05AM (#16939609)
> Spammy question often ends up overwhelming limited screen space and good questions gets buried like a needle in the haystack.

This is one of the issues with SO. I'd love to find a good question. I'd be happy to spend some time on it and learn something. But instead there are lots of questions about why the guessing game doesn't wait for input the second time, what's this syntax error, why doesn't this "if" work. Questions that will maybe help one person, but could be deleted immediately afterwards and nobody would notice.

I don't even know what's the answer. Maybe a canonical "this is how you debug an if statement which doesn't work" or other topic answer would help. Maybe not.

Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by tedmiston on Friday April 27, 2018 @06:47PM (#16945021)
> I'd love to find a good question. I'd be happy to spend some time on it and learn something.

You can sort by most upvoted unanswered questions.

https://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=votes