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What a shame. Used to be such a great place. And to be fair some of the wider StackExchange communities still are (the PowerShell crowd stick out in my memory as being a friendly bunch).
But people need a place to be able to answer their dumb questions and have someone be kind to them. SO's insistence on being the primary repository of useful knowledge and having that principle take priority over user experience is what killed it. I tried suggesting they implemented a 2-tier question/answer system, where "quality" questions got promoted to the repository and the rest didn't get indexed, but it got marked as a duplicate of something it wasn't a duplicate of, so that was the end of that.
What StackOverflow also fails to understand is that as technology moves on, the "right" answer changes. So an answer that got 20 billion upvotes in 2003 could well be completely useless by now (heck, you don't even have to go back that far).