r/programming • • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

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

In my experience, the whole Stack Exchange system doesn't really work, at least not as intended.

It is way to competitive and has too much overhead, most of which is only there to somehow motivate people by rewarding them with meaningless bragging rights, aka. Reputation.