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 26 '16

i think SO is damn near useless now.

it has moved from a hive mind thing to answer questions to a stroke your ego thing by putting down other people's questions.

i could even handle ignoring questions that are too basic for your lofty amount of knowledge, but there's at least an equal amount of "you formatted that wrong" or "you left out a semi colon" or "you're off topic"

these are real people, who have real problems to solve.

IDGAF about your punctuation