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Are they really worried about too much noise on the site? Please, come on.

Is this really so hard to believe? I have been a member of the community for ten years now (https://goo.gl/JZkqSP) and have seen the number of low-quality questions rise to the point where I honestly don’t enjoy answering any more. People don’t care to ask well, they just want to get over their personal issue as quickly as possible and be done with it.

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I have countless examples of me googling for a very specific issue, and the only relevant hit I can find is a closed SO question.

Exactly. We have sophisticated search algorithms, noise is no problem.

Rather, noise is not a problem for SO, but it is a problem of someone else.

it has happened to me once or twice as well :(

Even with relevant, unique, well-worded questions, there are a number of militant reviewers who will flag it as a duplicate of the first question they find on the same topic (even though its clearly not a dupe).

It may well be true that the number of low-quality questions is increasing (I believe it, some really are just garbage), but the number of low-quality reviewers has unfortunately also increased.

I asked a really specific question about redis and one guy just posted this as an answer: You can install redis with sudo apt-get install redis-server

I agree with your sentiment, but I'd like to point out that I've seen examples of closed questions that were worded well, and interesting enough for me to answer.

Is this really so hard to believe?

When nearly every question I end up on has been closed it seems they don't really care, if they did closed questions would disappear.

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