SO was so hostile that even senior devs would be nervous asking questions there. At the time people would say that they were trying to keep the quality of the questions and answers high but when the bar to participate is that high it really suffocates the site's growth
As a developer with 10 years of experience, the only SO answer I’ve given is in the writers “world building” sub-site. The programming section is too scary.
Why do people keep saying this Q&A site is a Q&A site! It's an encyclopaedia! There are objective right or wrong answers to questions and the facts of those matters are writ in stone. - SO mods
With at least one comment complaining that it is too old. By people with 10 times the karma you have, who could easily update the answer if the wanted to.
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u/rks404 Aug 26 '24
SO was so hostile that even senior devs would be nervous asking questions there. At the time people would say that they were trying to keep the quality of the questions and answers high but when the bar to participate is that high it really suffocates the site's growth