I have found SO very useful for finding out information, largely because Google gives high page ranks to many useful questions.
Recently I have had experience of asking questions on SO (not on this account) and found the community very quick to condemn questions which do not match certain criter...
see http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/the-stack-overflow-question-lifecycle/
Why would you delete a question? Isn’t closing it enough?
Some questions are of such poor quality that they cannot be salvaged. They’re literally nonsense. Not every byte of data that is created in the wo...
The value in deleting things that the community has closed as off topic and not leaving the broken windows around
I notice that What is the single most influential book every programmer should read? and What is the single most influential book every programmer should read? have been undeleted by a Stack Exchange developer.
After long months of framing these pieces of garbage, the Stack Overflow community, w...
> Hidden features of Stack Overflow No matter how many times you try to flush, your face will always show the fecal stains rubbed deep into your hair and everyone will rejoice for they too can sit hours on end braiding it
I'm feeling like the new rules are "thou shalt not have any fun on Stack Overflow". Which I guess is fine for some, but if I'm not having fun, I'm not going to answer any questions. (I'm well past the point where I can be motivated by more reputation or another free T-shirt.)
A cursory glance at all the raging, these hard-fought for questions read like the typical forum posts and not of the Q&A type. So the FAQ didn't really change to kick them out to Delete-ville. It's just that the tolerance for these forum posts has turned against them. As a programmer.
Need to find one of these recent posts in favour of not deleting while at the same time not contributing to the inflated rep. Because if keeping around off topic forum posts is good for the soul, so should keeping a more accurate reflective rep
In every social system, there's always a difference between the real rules and th e rules that are written down. What I'd like to know is what happened within the last week such that the rules that are written down, which had been different from the real rules, are suddenly being enforced? And very retroactively, too.
Proposed Q&A site for people who like to preserve the popular detritus of other sites where questions and their answers are no longer on-topic (if they ever were).
see http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/the-stack-overflow-question-lifecycle/
Why would you delete a question? Isn’t closing it enough?
Some questions are of such poor quality that they cannot be salvaged. They’re literally nonsense. Not every byte of data that is created in the wo...
