[politicorific]

Great post.

I would also encourage people to contribute to original project documentation, bug trackers, or mailing lists.

It’s unfortunate that Stack Overflow is the first destination people end up going to. I guess it’s to be expected since many projects only offer static pages and offer minimalist code examples.

The original poster is lucky that they have a blog and their own platform to voice their opinions.

[leephillips]

This is a good point: many open source projects now have their documentation under GitHub, and that provides a great way to make corrections and improvements, as well as expanding the documentation.

EDIT: anyone can have their own platform, you don’t need to be lucky. It only costs a few bucks to register a domain, and hosting starts at $0.