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Re:What a bad day at work taught me about building Stack Ove... by bluntfang on Thursday July 18, 2019 @02:17PM (#20472536)
I see what you're saying and it's hard when something you care about gets changed in a way that doesn't align with your original intentions, but this is something professional Software Developers have to deal with on a daily basis when working on teams, and granted, is a very hard mentality to embrace.

WHY questions are not good use cases for what Stack Overflow is trying to accomplish. WHY questions to a community that isn't the original developer of a tool have subjective answers and Stack Overflow is trying to be a place of objective problem solving. Possibly your question was better suited for an app like Quora.

Re:What a bad day at work taught me about building Stack Ove... by fortran77 on Friday July 19, 2019 @09:21AM (#20478382)
There's no excuse to completely change the meaning of a question. Perhaps a comment that "why" questions don't really fit the format of StackOverflow would have been a better choice.