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SO still gives a lot of relevant answers to my web searches, despite its absurd moderation policies. Don't quite understand it why people on HN are so negative towards SO.

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That's a different can of worms. They might claim their search results are good because they moderate a lot to remove noise, and maybe that's true, but it's this weird moderation that discourages good answers, and I think there are better ways of doing SEO so that you can have your cake and eat it too.

I mean, a guy who spent hours on every answer just left the site. That should give you a clue.

I think most peoples' negativity here is not towards the idea that it can be useful for quick Google searches, but rather that it has become a place that doesn't foster or encourage productive feedback and has become negatively affected by poor moderation. This will, in totality, greatly affect how valuable one appreciates time spent contributing there to be.

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