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A couple of years ago, Stack Overflow was being inundated with extremely low-quality questions. I'm not exaggerating when I say that, had the automated filters that were put in place at the time not been implemented, Stack Overflow would have collapsed.

A couple of years ago, Stack Overflow was being inundated with extremely low-quality questions. I'm not exaggerating when I say that, had the automated filters that were put in place at the time not been implemented, Stack Overflow would have collapsed.

A couple of years ago, Stack Overflow was being inundated with extremely low-quality questions. I'm not exaggerating when I say that, had the automated filters that were put in place at the time not been implemented, Stack Overflow would have collapsed.

A couple of years ago, Stack Overflow was being inundated with extremely low-quality questions. I'm not exaggerating when I say that, had the automated filters that were put in place at the time not been implemented, Stack Overflow would have collapsed.

A couple of years ago, Stack Overflow was being inundated with extremely low-quality questions. I'm not exaggerating when I say that that, had the automated filters that were put in place at the time not been implemented, Stack Overflow would have collapsed.

In the blog post, someone essentially that hey, I could get my answer from a forum, why can't you be more like a forum? Take a close look at those forum environments. On reflection, have you found any of them really useful to you at all? Can you count on the fingers of one hand the times when posting to a forum really gave you a timely, meaningful answer to your problem?

A couple of years ago, Stack Overflow was being inundated with extremely low-quality questions. I'm not exaggerating when I say that, had the automated filters that were put in place at the time not been implemented, Stack Overflow would have collapsed.

In the blog post, someone essentially said that hey, I could get my answer from a forum, why can't you be more like a forum? Take a close look at those forum environments. On reflection, have you found any of them really useful to you at all? Can you count on the fingers of one hand the times when posting to a forum really gave you a timely, meaningful answer to your problem?