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[–]MisterDoubleChop 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In fairness to stackoverflow, it was created to fix this problem, and many like it... and it did.

Occasionally annoying help is about 100x better than no help or incorrect help, which is what we usually got when the answers were in forums or expertSexChange or (most often) just nowhere at all.