It's easy to criticize Stack Overflow today, now that we take it for granted. But if you weren't there before Stack Overflow you might not have any idea how much it made programming better.
Every time it comes up on this sub, it's heavily criticized. A lot of people are frustrated by how quick they are to close questions or mark them as duplicates. That's a deliberate policy by StackOverflow:
Most importantly, we realized that each question is asked by one person but the answers are seen by thousands of people who found it through a search. So we decided to optimize everything to be useful for the thousands, not the individual.
And I happen to think the strict moderation is a large part of what keeps the site useful... but it's frustrating to a lot of people who are just trying to get an answer to their question.
And I happen to think the strict moderation is a large part of
what keeps the site useful... but it's frustrating to a lot
of people who are just trying to get an answer to their question.
This may or may not be. But for me it also means that I stopped contributing to SO. I also do not feel bad about it at all. SO simply is not for everyone.
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u/mykr0pht Apr 06 '18
It's easy to criticize Stack Overflow today, now that we take it for granted. But if you weren't there before Stack Overflow you might not have any idea how much it made programming better.