Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
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Ah, the prime example of a stack overflow user. Nice.
That's fair.
The prime example of a SO user is being intentionally obtuse, demanding more detail even if the typical programmer would have a pretty clear picture of what is being asked. So yeah, projection much?
And then asking, "why would you even try doing it like this?"
I'm trying to SSH into my Window 11 machine and it keeps saying "Connection refused: port 22". Wut do?
Oh, thank you. Your use of reduplication helped my smooth brain process your comment properly.
Code is something used by the Germans to defeat the Allies, they put code in their tanks and drove all the way to London to greet the English prime minister with a barrage of advanced warfare and AI-enabled crypto currencies.
This is my favorite comment on lemmy so far
https://stackoverflow.com/tour
There's a call out to quality of answers... which has implications for the quality of the questions.
Make note of the use "exactly what you are trying to do". When people are asking about what are you trying to do and the nature of the question... that's part of it.
Not everything is suited for the Q&A format that Stack Overflow uses. It isn't a help desk - it's a Q&A site that is trying to build a repository of information.
Further reading: https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/
And an announcement of Stack Overflow: https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/
The emphasis on "good" is in the original too.
It may be that your question isn't one that fits the site format well. That should be ok - there are many other places to ask questions. Stack Overflow is poorly designed for many types of questions in an effort to optimize its utility for being a repository of knowledge for people to search and find answers without having to ever ask a question.