[jrumbut]

I've noticed that for a lot of quick/common stuff ("how do I change font color with JavaScript?") the question that comes up is old and talks about jQueryUI, but there are 400 answers that cover every library and framework since then.

It's really not convenient to search through those answers even though the knowledge you need is there.

For a long time they argued that duplicate questions were a problem because they weren't trying to be a Q&A site but rather a knowledge database. But it turns out that the duplicate reduction effort has made the knowledge database harder to access for many common queries.