First world problems - approaching 50k rep on Stackoverflow (well, currently on 46k.) Would quite like to get to 50k. But my days of enjoying procrastinating on there are long gone.

Sadly, so are most of the good questions it seems.

Anyone else still answer random questions on there for fun? Or has everyone else pretty much given up with it too?

I've never had an account there because I figured that I'd spend my time better e.g. by lighting farts in the bathtub.

I reached 5k rep a while and thought that was a lot.. mostly from 1 answer that got 100's of upvotes due to it not being accepted. (Its one of the first search results on Google if you search for textContent vs innerText)

Correct me if I'm wrong or tell me if you feel the same that whereas SO questions used to be about general programming languages and standard API's now most of them are very narrow and stack-specific (e.g. how do I solve x in framework y with techs a, b and c)

@webketje I think that's one trend, yup - the other one is that there used to be a lot more "expert" questions around of the "I've got this specific problem with this specific stack in this specific code that's really odd, anyone else seen it" variety - and you could generally have a really good, interesting go at answering them.

These days, the vast majority seem to be "how do I do bold in CSS" style questions, and those that aren't often get closed quite quickly if the usual rabble feel a bit insulted they don't know the answer straight off.

I'm too stupid to answer questions. Don't even bother lol

I bothered for whole... 2 days?

You know, I use this community, so I can throw in my 2 cents to make it better. But than I discovered that most of questions are asked way that won't be reusable. If someone could notify me when actually good question would be asked, I might bother again...

Generally speaking ammount of d***ckheads on stackoverflow (there were few rants about this) is discouraging me greatly.

@DubbaThony Yup, lots of arses on there - both people that ask stupid questions and refuse to do any kind of work / research to make them better, and people that want to close / DV every question out there as "this is beenath me and I'm on a power trip."

@AlmondSauce

Like for fuck sakes, you know this site EXISTS becouse someone may be better at lets say SQL, and other may be quite good at PHP.

And its to help each other do common things, i may google why to use JOIN instead of selecting FROM 2 tables, but often you find that 30 year of expirience DBA beeing dick becouse its so basic question for him.

(Yeep, i related it to myself, my sql is quite poor and overdrawn a lil the example)

@DubbaThony Oh yes. There's a big difference between a simple question that's well researched, well written and very specific, and a simple question that's just a random code dump with "fix pls".

Unfortunately many members seem to conflate the two.

@AlmondSauce

Stack overflow is strange place of internet.

We, all here, use it, probably more often than just daily.

But most of us equaly are as gratefull for this site as hate this site..

Its complicated ^^