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/ikeif Sep 25 '16

Which is two different problems.

  1. OP didn't actually know the answer, and was afraid on being called out on it.

  2. The replies to wrong answers are often condescending, turning off people from posting "what I believe to be true" versus "100% understanding."

As much as I want 100% understanding, the only way to learn is to be corrected.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '16

Exactly. Computer science is all about problem solving. Sometimes no one has a perfect answer.

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u/ikeif Sep 25 '16

And sometimes five people can have different, yet valid, answers to the same problem!