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Yeah, Stackoverflow kinda dug their own grave by making their platform and community very unpleasant to engage with.



Well, I believe the underlying problem of platforms like StackOverflow, ticketing systems (in-house and public) and even CRMs is not really solvable. The problem is, the quality of an answer is actually not easy to determine. All the mechanisms we have are hacks, and better solutions would need more resources... which leads to skewed incentives, and ultimately to a "knwoledge" db thats actually not very good. People are incentiviszed to collect karma points, or whatever it is. But these metrics are not really resembling the quality of their work... Crowdsourcing this mechanisms via upvotes or whatever does also not really work, because quantity is not quality... As said, I believe this is a problem we can not solve.




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