Stack ExchangeReviews 7

Years ago, Stack Exchange was a decently good place to seek help for your problems, with so many different sites for different topics. These days, however, the site has no interest in helping anybody. Good, well-written questions constantly get closed without reason or for reasons that don't actually apply on the whims of fickle moderators. Getting questions re-opened or migrated is practically impossible and because it goes against the Stack Exchange rules you can't simply ask your question again at a different Stack Exchange site where it may be a "better fit" so you're completely out of luck.
Just about any other website is more helpful than Stack Exchange.

I asked a pretty straightforward question & got some responses pretty quick with guys trying to help, but then some a hole user Barmar deleted my question because they say it had already been asked & answered, but it wasn't, I read for days thru the posts they referred to & not even close to what I asked, the sad thing is once I figured out the problem with my PHP code, I realized one of the users who was in the process of helping me when barmar ended it, would have solved my issue likely in the next comment, based on my answer to the last question he asked me.

Then to make matter worse, they locked my account from asking future questions, how is this going to help young programmers?

All you power tripping a holes need to get out of mama's basement & deal with men face to face now & again to re-humanize the community & yourselves too.
Acting like an a hole online has given you a false sense of power & control ur fat asses don't really possess.

To quote iron Mike people have forgotten what it's like to be pushed in the face for acting a fool.

In order to comment or answer anywhere we need what they call 'reputations'. I feel it subdues our freedom of speech as we can't ask important questions.

Usually, I ask questions and get the information I want on two platforms. One is Quora, the other one is Stack Exchange. Stack Exchange is a forum where people from different fields can discuss, communicate, and help each other in classified communities. Due to a large user base, there are insanely amount of information. You almost can find any info you need on the exact problem there. Besides, you can expect a quick response to your question. Personally, I think two best communities of Stack Exchange is "Stack Overflow", centering lots of web programming questions and English Language & Usage, gathering questions primarily about idioms and grammars.

My advice:
Don't share your knowledge for free on Stackexchange, you will never be rewarded for it. Better create a blog. A blog can bring you job, customers, fans, money.

The information quality of this website is over-estimated. Normally, we should get answers from very wise users. However, they are users on this website who don't deserve their points and don't really answer the question. They just debate about the question without dropping a line of code.

From a technical point of view, many questions should be simple to solve. The person who answers should have the necessary lines of codes, lines of command or directives. However, Most of the time, some argue and you can do NOTHING with what their answer. They just fill up the blank. So, you read the 2 or 3 first answers to discover they aren't helpful for your problem. So it means that you wasted several minutes reading.

How it is possible since these answers get voted?

I am suspicious about the +1 those low-quality answers get. I wonder if some people didn't create bots just to get a better ranking.

You may read 5 answers thinking they are helpful and after thinking about it, you discover none of them are useful for your problem. Stackexchange is an ersatz of a support website.

Just like for Quora, people pretend to be knowledgeable about subjects, but they don't.

There is only a small percentage of knowledgeable people on Stackexchange, and those people are never rewarded just like they should.