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cogman10 4 hours ago

One of the more annoying things about SO was they'd pretty frequently misclassify new questions.

Sometimes a new question was in fact a duplicate and should be closed as such. But in the quest to close duplicates I pretty frequently had to argue with the reviewer that "No, this isn't a duplicate just because these two questions related to the same library".

SO practically rewarded this sort of over-policing which I think is a big part of why everyone stopped using it.

And people stopping using it meant that when a question did actually make it through the gauntlet, it was likely to go unanswered because everyone who knew anything had left the platform.

xeromal 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, I had several questions popped for being an "opinion" question whatever that means. lol.

Do you remember how power users would edit your question just for the gamification of it. Drove me nuts

dmboyd 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s my only experience. Asking a direct technical question, only for it to be modified to a totally different question filled with essays of non-answers by folks who liked to answer their own questions I guess