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by kkoncevicius
1190 days ago
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> Moderation is so aggressive that they seemed to have forgotten the purpose of the site is to help people. 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. |
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