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The one time I posted a question on SO, it got flagged as duplicate and there were links to multiple other questions that were not even remotely the same to mine. Even more so, the tagged questions were not even mutually the same!

It took two hours to carefully craft my question just to have it immediately shot down. It is needless to say I have not posted again since.

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Yup. If I post anything on SO or related sites it's because I hope to get an answer before the question is inevitably closed.

I just assume that my question won't fit their guidelines, regardless of what it is, these days.

Sometimes the problem with Stack Overflow is different: the question has been asked before and there ARE valid answers... for several years ago, which are no longer correct (or the "best" answers).

I think they're over-moderating the site. It's a shame because it's MUCH better than what was before.

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