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AmblingAvocado on Feb 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to program if you are blind

My experience with SO is this: Google for something, see a relevant SO link, click it. Page loads, question covers exactly what I'm looking for. First 3 comments on the question are about how the question doesn't belong on SO, or is too broad, or wrong, or whatever. The first answer contains the information I need.

I don't really contribute to SO for the same reason I don't really contribute to Wikipedia - the editors seem so hellbent on enforcing standards and rules that they throw the baby out with the bathwater.

icebraining on Feb 13, 2013 [–]

Doesn't the fact that you actually found an answer that covers exactly what you're looking for indicate that SO didn't throw the baby out?

AmblingAvocado on Feb 13, 2013 | [–]

True enough, but I'm afraid that if the editors had the power, they would have nuked the question before the answers even got there.

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