Where Do You Seek Help First?

> Why was StackOverflow their last resort?

A quick look at pretty much any question on SO will explain that - between the "you're doing it wrong", "your question is worded 95% too imprecisely for me to help", "use something else", "[answer to entirely different question with overtones of patronisation and insult]" etc. answers, life's generally too damned short to bother with SO.