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<Stack Overflow> does have an super naive reputation and moderation system and overly restrictive subject matter, which <Ciro Santilli> wants to improve upon with <OurBigBook.com>.

However, it is the best that we have now, and if you <Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>[use it like Ciro], you won't get tired:
* monitor only rare tags that you know a lot about, let others answer duplicates on big tags for you
* only answer on bigger tags when you find a better answer than can be found on the page
* accept that sometimes things are bound to go wrong, that reputation is meaningless, and move on
What else would you expect from a naive algorithm system that has 10 million newbies asking stuff?

The key problem of <Stack Overflow> is <closurism>. The answer close feature is just not made for purpose. The sole purpose of "closing" should be to prevent easy reputation farming. What it should do instead, is remove points gained from duplicates and off topic questions. But it should not prevent new answers. The disk space costs nothing, and <Google> doesn't care about the closed status of a question.

As of 2024, the only competitor of <Stack Overflow> is <Reddit> (besides <LLMs>, which do  nothing but extract data from those two and other sites). <Reddit allowed posts to not automatically archive after 6 months as a sub setting>[Reddit removed the mandatory thread locking after 6 months], but still lacks the Q&A focus required for greatness. Its community however is much more chill and doesn't close and downvote the fuck out of everything.

Related posts:
* https://cellio.org/blog/2023/so-layoffs


Stack overflow is doomed

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