Comment by zahlman

> As someone who came into the industry in college, the problem with SO was simply that it was too hard to ask a question.

That's because you were intended to use the site like GP describes, and not by asking simply because you want to know something.

> They were up your ass about minutia that really didn't matter.

What you consider "minutia" were critically important, because the entire point was to optimize for GP's experience.