[ThereIsNoWorry]

I never really used stackoverflow. The rare times I do use it, i.e. google leads me to it, a large portion of the posts really annoy the hell out of me. I don't care if someone tries to solve the "wrong" problem, or however stupid "highly valued" users on that platform try to frame it. I don't care about similar questions, redundancy, frameworks, wrong usages of languages and quirks. I don't want to search around finding those other similar posts where the poster apparently has the more correct question (?). I don't want to learn a general method that solves the underlying problem so much more elegantly than the apparently implied "hack" that would be needed to solve the posters question as is. No, I'm very happy with the hack and I want it, because I want to know the answer to my problem, not indulge in your elitism. From that point of view, stackoverflow is very often just beyond useless.

[bombcar]

The only thing that introduces a similar level of rage in me is when something ends up on Microsoft's forum, the "marked correct" answer is always some variation of "did you turn it back off and on" that never has any replies or relevance.

[noodleman]

Maybe I'm making it up, but I swear I've read somewhere that the answers are shit on purpose so you to go to their paid support.

Sounds Microsoftian enough to be plausible.