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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by meddlin on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:35AM (#36858739)
With such a stark barrier to entry, why would I spend much time on there? Also, at the beginning of my career I got much more value from "explaining articles", and much less from ultra-specific answers.

Later on when I had more experience, I wanted to give back:

- try to answer -> "you need cred"

- okay, upvote -> "you need cred"

- try to comment -> "you need cred"

- Ask a question -> "Duplicate. You should RT(Free)M we built."

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by hans_castorp on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:38AM (#36858764)
I never understood why it's allowed to post a question (even without an account), but not allowed to add a comment.
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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by isbvhodnvemrwvn on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:51AM (#36858852)
Comments are not searchable and difficult to moderate. A lot of people asked follow up questions in comments.
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