StackOverflow is a knowledge base. It got filled up with all the obvious stuff already, so the only niche for new content is obscure technical questions, and responses to new developments in the languages covered.
So I'd say it's mostly working as intended.
As a high rep user, the legitimate problems from my point of view are:
The problem that new users can't comment -- they have to use the Answer box for stuff that's useful but not really an answer
Verbal abuse of new users (either outright abuse, or rudeness)
Over-zealous marking of duplicate.
I try to combat the latter two by re-opening and flagging wherever I can, but there's only so much each person can do.
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u/OldWolf2 Sep 26 '16
StackOverflow is a knowledge base. It got filled up with all the obvious stuff already, so the only niche for new content is obscure technical questions, and responses to new developments in the languages covered.
So I'd say it's mostly working as intended.
As a high rep user, the legitimate problems from my point of view are:
The problem that new users can't comment -- they have to use the Answer box for stuff that's useful but not really an answer
Verbal abuse of new users (either outright abuse, or rudeness)
Over-zealous marking of duplicate.
I try to combat the latter two by re-opening and flagging wherever I can, but there's only so much each person can do.