Comment by sevenseacat
5 months ago
And that was the core problem with Stack Overflow - they wanted to build a system of core Q&As to be a reference, but everyone treated it as a "fix my very specific problem now".
99% of all the junk that got closed was just dumps of code and 'it doesn't work'. Not useful to anyone.
And 99% of the other stuff, that wasn't just a code dump and "it doesn't work", was also closed.
Believe it or not, that's not correct :)