Just found out, as of Nov 16, I've been on StackOverflow for 10 years.

I wish it was remotely as good as the old days.

This rant is closed by moderation

Posts are rarely closed by "moderation".

I should really post a rant about which things regarding SO you should *actually* be upset about. Not all of the things like "they closed my question because it asked for help on my homework".

Because hating on SO seems to be a bandwagon but nobody knows the actually bad things SO does.

I've never participated much on SO. I've asked maybe 3 questions and each time been presented with:

"Can you post some code" by folks who I think are in such a rush to provide an answer to a specific thing and give you a quick bit of code ... they really miss that it was more of a conceptual question about dealing with X, Y, Z.

Beyond that I don't feel like I need to really participate, I almost always find something like what I'm looking for and maybe that's all SO is as far as value goes.

Well that and boxing stupid jquery answers....

You wish questions were remotely as good as they were in old days

@theabbie true. Too many “help meh plz” questions. I remember a rant a few days ago about some guy posting a giant sql query asking them why it’s broke

@theabbie No, the whole site. The people used to be fun and collaborative, you knew a large portion of them by name, there were fun topics and pranks and jokes and we could all mostly trust each other to keep things clean.

@junon I feel like it's because Stack Overflow is also the bandwagon. People who complain about the community they're a part of still play a part in how it's shaped. So often the goal with these comments is to shift blame rather than address problems.