Timeline for Stack Overflow increasingly unfriendly to newbies
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| Jun 26, 2019 at 7:42 | comment | added | rene Mod | @AshokanSivapragasam yes, there has always been the title search that find similar questions, dedicated help in the right bar, there are basic checks to prevent code only questions, tag warnings and errors when certain tags are used and since a couple of months there is the Ask Question Wizard. All of which is happily ignored as are the quality-ban warnings. The tools and guidance might have rough edges, it isn't useless but it does require that users live up to the advice put in front of them. | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 7:16 | comment | added | Ashokan Sivapragasam | Has SO community put thoughts about closing or screening the overwhelmingly surge of questions like fix-my-html-styling, regex-correction-or-formation,.. while OP writes the question itself? | |
| Apr 23, 2019 at 22:27 | comment | added | Andy | Thank you for your time in replying Rene. It is much appreciated and you have put things into context for me! | |
| Apr 23, 2019 at 21:17 | vote | accept | Andy | ||
| Apr 23, 2019 at 21:13 | history | answered | reneMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |