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by shortercode
1190 days ago
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It hasn’t been useful for some while sadly. Moderation is so aggressive that they seemed to have forgotten the purpose of the site is to help people. Quite a lot of the existing content is outdated or unclear. Also good luck writing a question that is both acceptable and there’s someone who knows an answer… |
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The purpose of the site was never in helping people (as in answering every question). The original purpose of SO was in constructing a searchable database of question-answer pairs. With this in mind a question that was asked before, or is too complex, or too vague should be closed as off topic. I think something like this also happened with the question OP was trying to ask.
A quote from https://blog.codinghorror.com/what-does-stack-overflow-want-... :
Stack Overflow ultimately has much more in common with Wikipedia than a discussion forum. By this I mean questions and answers on Stack Overflow are not primarily judged by their usefulness to a specific individual, but by how many other programmers that question or answer can potentially help over time.