How to keep Stack Overflow from turning into a landfill (2016)

If "help vampires" and "noobs" (what terrible terms to use to describe people new to our industry) are a problem, then the blame falls on SO for not presenting its knowledge in a more useful way. No one prefers spending time signing up for an account and writing a question if the answer is readily available. But of course the real problem is that every question can be an edge case that isn't fully addressed by reference answers that people keep sending you to.

Beginners aren't a problem in my experience, the meta moderation and fanatical adherence to an arbitrary and bureaucratic policy that discourages interesting and useful questions is, however.

Plus the fact that SO is kinda unwelcoming as explained by SO executive Jay Hanlon [1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-ve...