After posting a few questions to SO I often ended up not getting a response or solving the problem myself after further research which in reality sums up the site is a whole.

1) If you already have enough programming experience to understand algorithms and abstract concepts in programming you can find the answer by doing research.

2) More often than not the answers were citing answers that already exist elsewhere.

3) A lot of the trivial answers were marked as low quality, dupes and so on when these were the people who could benefit from SO the most.

Eventually I stopped visiting the site around 2 years after getting into programming since it rarely provided anything of value.

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Serverfault was great and I will miss it.