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by mikewarot 1849 days ago
The days before Stack Overflow were far better. A search used to return a blog post in which a person described a bug, how they got there, and the resolution.

The net effect of stack overflow was to spam the search engines with non-answers like "you asked in the wrong forum", "you didn't ask nicely", etc.

Long ago I learned to route around it.

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Really?? I remember frequently running into a site that was strangely named ExpertSexchange and having to fight through ads to get information.
It was supposed to be Experts Exchange and... yeah, bad choice of domain name, especially since "sex change" is an outdated term now considered a slur, on par with "Eskimo".