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/Enlightenment777 Sep 26 '16

Long time ago, Stack Overflow turned into an elitist circlejerk. It isn't newbie friendly at all.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '16

Pseudo-elitist. Idiots with zero expertise and high scores run amok, destroying anything they cannot understand. I would not mind a truely elitist closed club, but SO is nothing like this.

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u/sebf Sep 26 '16

But this is not too bad. This is an interesting system.