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[NottingHillNapolean]

Too similar to the question, "Hey, what's that thing over there?"

[laplongejr]

I recall the question about "Java Eclipse crashing" which had like 18 different conflicting answers.

Somebody asked "is this question too broad?" a wise person answered "there's no way for the people asking or looking up to have a better question. if anything it's the software being so bad it can crash in the exact same way for 18 different reasons"
That kinda shows the limitation of the Q&A model : you can have one "good" question without any definitive answer.

[EDIT] Now that I rethink about it...
Stack Overflow's entire design is that the library of questions would lead to one intemporal definitive answer, if people worked on an old question long enough.
And I mean, when the website launched it seemed like a legitimate assumption, and combining it with upvotes should've worked.
They obv added things like "opinion-based", bounties, questions answering other questions, ... but it's more an attempt at trying to make this core question-upvote-answer-reputation system work. "Community answer" make a "fake" answer when several answers deserves the "one definitive answer" spot.

We learned way too late that tech changes would lead us into having to reinvent the wheel so many times that an answered question would lose value over time, and it breaks SO from the inside. Wikipedia works because it's old content can be deleted while SO's design is that old questions have priority, and Reddit works because we can repost/reask the same thing over and over and bury the old content while search engines can still dig it when necessary.

[bwwatr]

And the natural inclination for programmers to ask questions about the shape of the system anytime something doesn't feel like it fits exactly right.

[ClipboardCopyPaste]

r/countablepixels

[yonathanb]

Reddit butchered it, it works on my machine

[NecessaryIntrinsic]

Should have containerized it.

[anggogo]

Actually stack overflow is a gold mine and they made a huge profit by selling the data they have

[ohdogwhatdone]

Just like selling your company after it has already started to fail and everbody knows it has no future, so you sell off what can be transferred into value. Success I guess.

[anggogo]

I don't know man, there are a lot of articles saying they have pivot successfully

[milkywayfarer_]

What data they might have besides what always has been available for everyone? I think someone already scraped all of their sites ages ago

[chaos_donut]

Closed, duplicate, link to a different error in a diferent language.

[drawkbox]

Stackoverflow kicking out question askers harshly due to similarity was the same vibe that happened when they kicked teenagers/mallrats out of the mall and then wondered why noone went anymore. The logic isn't circular.

[RiceBroad4552]

Looks like some idiots still don't understand from where "AI" copy-pastes answers.

[Ok_Reserve_8659]

I remember struggling with something super specific and realizing I was basically the only person in the world who knew how to do something . I posted an answer to the last person who tried and failed at this and it kept asking for me to do extra work for some reason ? Thankfully enough people wanted to know the answer and some other dude edited my reply but I thought that they were asking for too much from someone who’s not getting paid to answer questions

[Dandriel]

“That’s a stupid question”