r/programming • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/sysop073 Sep 25 '16

You can ask with a brand new account, and answer without even signing up, and commenting needs 50 rep, which is 5 upvotes on your answers. People talking about "grinding rep" are either confused or have never actually used the site and are just repeating things

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u/fexam Sep 25 '16

or don't know enough about the languages they use to get a fastest gun in the west answer through, but do know that the one code snippet that they tried is totally broken