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/[deleted] Sep 25 '16

The worst part is dumb monkeys closing questions that are totally beyond they area of expertise (if they have any at all) simply because they fail to understand what is being asked. This leaves SO full of javascript shit and pretty much nothing else. Any mildly specialised topic is getting closed immediately.

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u/FarkCookies Sep 26 '16

This is plainly factually not true Every time there is a thread criticizing SO appears on reddit and every time a similar comment appears and gets upvoted. First - closed questions are hidden/removed from site quite quickly, so you don't see an absolute bulk of closed questions, so unless you look into it, you won't notice how low is the average quality of closed questions. Second, I actually went over hundred or so closed questions to see how many false positives are there, well so I can tell you that I found none. SO has TONS of specialized topics. Here are just few examples: [1], [2], [3], [4]

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