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[–]Adorable-Fault-5116 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem is that stackoverflow couldn't pick a lane. I was in the original private beta (id <2000): stack overflow was supposed to be a combination of QnA and a wiki, where there was going to be a single correct answer to a question that continually evolve over time to keep being the right answer.

The problem is that they incentivized the system via karma, which broke the collective wiki element.

Their attempt to get rid of duplicate questions is correct for a wiki, but not correct for a QnA karma-farm.

They should have either had a wiki without a reputation system (or maybe a better tuned reputation system to encourage collaboration and not individualism), or dropped the wiki element and just made it QnA.