Near the end of my time there it became near impossible to get any positive and constructive engagement with my questions. A mod would quickly come in and dismiss it as not providing enough information. And even after you provide this dubiously required info you never hear from them or anyone else again.
The site also suffered from a too strict "no repeat questions" rule. People can phrase and search for the same in question in many different ways. To pick just one phrasing limits answers and the different ways people can find them.
> The site also suffered from a too strict "no repeat questions" rule.
Why is that bad? In questions closed for this reason, there’s usually a link to a prior question.
I wouldn’t call myself a particularly hardcore Stack Exchange user, but if anything it seems like what are essentially duplicate questions are too permitted. Soooo many questions on how to munge some extremely specific textual format into some other extremely specific textual format. The classic ‘give someone a fish’ issue.
Near the end of my time there it became near impossible to get any positive and constructive engagement with my questions. A mod would quickly come in and dismiss it as not providing enough information. And even after you provide this dubiously required info you never hear from them or anyone else again.
The site also suffered from a too strict "no repeat questions" rule. People can phrase and search for the same in question in many different ways. To pick just one phrasing limits answers and the different ways people can find them.
> The site also suffered from a too strict "no repeat questions" rule.
Why is that bad? In questions closed for this reason, there’s usually a link to a prior question.
I wouldn’t call myself a particularly hardcore Stack Exchange user, but if anything it seems like what are essentially duplicate questions are too permitted. Soooo many questions on how to munge some extremely specific textual format into some other extremely specific textual format. The classic ‘give someone a fish’ issue.
> Why is that bad? In questions closed for this reason, there’s usually a link to a prior question.
Because they were quite often somewhat different and you did not found the actual answer in the linked post.
Conversation has already started at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44143857