[neurotrace]

Are we really digging up this thing again? It uses inflammatory language, cherry-picks interactions from the site, and overall shows that the author doesn't understand what it takes to create and maintain a high quality knowledge resource.

Who here has not used Stack Overflow at least a time or two for bits of information? Do a lot of newer users submit low quality questions? Yes. Do they get corrected on how to interact with the site and have their questions deleted or redirected? Yes. If no such measures were in place, Stack Overflow would become as useless as every other Programming Q&A forum out there. The highly specialized ones do well for that area, the more general ones fall apart when you're trying to get direct, accurate information.

This was a poorly written article when it came out and it still is today.