Have you ever noticed how certain questions come up again and again on Stack Overflow sites?
Oh look, my PC is freezing. Should I use SELECT *? Oh, and, how can I host a server from home?
Really, people, do you want to be answering these same questions ten years from now? How about when you’re 65? That doesn’t sound so appealing now, does it?
We predicted this problem, even before we launched Stack Overflow. Why? Because the same thing happened on Usenet, where:
What happened next depended on the newsgroup. …