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by dude01 2144 days ago
Congrats to them. Let's hope it doesn't destabilize the product too much.
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one the bright side, if it's destabilized enough then someone would be incentivized to build a better one.
How do you make a better one? It's a human problem, a social interaction problem, not a tech one. Novices want to ask all the didn't-even-read-the-official-docs and don't-want-to-do-my-own-homework questions they want, and the more experienced users don't want to see those kinds of low-bar questions.

In my not so humble opinion, the mods on SO gets a lot of shit, but I think they're not strict enough. SO is absolutely brimming with low-bar questions and answers. Best case that is all noise, worst case, the wrong and misinformed answers (by people portraying expertise) ends up in production code.

much like how there is a feature for linking to duplicates, there should be an official feature to link to a section in the official docs.

It should even be in your face when answering a question. A culture of posting sources/references.