Stack Overflow Culture
I do hope that Stack Overflow will become usable again. In my opinion, the problem is mostly the answerers.<p>I went all the way from a simple coder to management, and now I&#x27;m doing both, running my second startup. I talk to people of different walks of life, and I always do my homework.<p>But on Stack Overflow, it&#x27;s like I&#x27;m back to the early years of my career, a stupid newbie whose questions get randomly downvoted. I delete it, tweak the wording a little bit, and now it&#x27;s suddenly accepted. I say something like, &quot;a solution or a 3rd party library&quot;, an idiot downvotes me saying that &quot;requests to recommend 3rd party libraries are offtopic&quot;. I change it to &quot;a solution (3rd party library is OK)&quot;, and now it&#x27;s suddenly fine.<p>It&#x27;s like the mafia of high-karma answerers decided to adopt Les Grossman as their role model.<p>As a side effect, the good answerers are gone, and the really tricky questions are left unanswered, so I often answer them myself. Although, the way Stack Overflow is, my desire to contribute to the community is diminishing.