Why my stack overflow question never answered

If you are a seasoned pro and have exhausted using a search engine: because they are so exotic and special that nobody knows.

If you are a beginner: because you shouldn't have asked them in the first place. You should have RTFM'ed or used a search engine to find the answer in a similar question.

@Fast-Nop maybe 1st one even though I am not a pro, because I keep googling but cannot find answer

@miladiashe That might be because the questions are special, or because your Google-Fu needs improvement.

maybe your SO-questions have the same problem as this one:

it contains no information we could use to actually answer you.

if you'd share one of the questions, we could take a look ;)

Sounds like another case of xyproblem

Stackoverflow is a pretty dead site these days. Its use as an archive of material is way better than as an active Q&A site.

@AlmondSauce That's the intended use. It's not meant for the same questions to be asked over and over just because someone else has that question. It's not a forum nor a helpdesk.

@Fast-Nop Ongoing activity doesn't imply repetition. There's whole swathes of new topics that simply aren't covered very well due to the lack of activity these days. It simply doesn't attract enough quality answers to keep it relevant.

The archive is great, but it becomes outdated quick as anything in an industry like this.

@AlmondSauce Yeah, knowledge management with a changing world is a major problem with SO because the whole underlying approach of an encyclopedia is a bad fit.

Did you include a MWE and is the question clearly stated and answerable ?

@AlmondSauce correction: there's _some few_ new topics that aren't covered because people are busy moderating the 99% of questions which are 1) answerable by RTFM, 2) already answered many times, 3) simply stupid or 4) just off-topic.

Did you include an MS paint diagram and sacrifice 12 virgin sheep, and baked 33 roosters on a flower bed?

Also, you need 14 paragraphs of text to every line of code, and you must use this question as your template when asking any question.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Because, despite everything SO says you need to do to ask a question, this is a perfect example of why they are hypocrites of their own bullshit standards.

Mind you, this is somehow still relevant 13 years later and people really don't know how to RTFM most days.

Would have been funny if noone reacted to this post.