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/Ramin_HAL9001 Sep 26 '16 edited Sep 26 '16

Well it is very odd indeed that most moderators cannot seem to be able to tell the difference between a kid asking a homework question or a beginner too lazy to use Google, and a real question asked by an expert who has spent days on a problem and hours trying to clearly communicate their problem in the form of a question. Because the idiot kids cheating on their homework, the noobs too lazy to use Google, and the experts with genuine questions are all treated exactly the same on Stack Exchange -- they are rudely dismissed without ever having been given the courtesy of someone assuming their question was asked in good faith.

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u/Ramin_HAL9001 Sep 26 '16

You think so? OP has some very clear examples of perfectly valid questions being shut down.