SE network went to shit a long time ago. They grew big enough that virtue signaling and rep grinding became more valuable than contributing to the community and helping people. At this point, you'll get more useful results on plebbit than SE.
Think about it from a karma whore's point of view: If he genuinely answers your question, he will get maybe one upvote from you, and maybe a handful more from the few people who can appreciate his response. But if he posts a politically correct non-answer that every other karma whore can agree-upvote, he can get a huge amount of rep. Even getting your question deleted provides a bit of guaranteed rep for very little effort. Comment votes don't add to you rep but the sense of validation is like crack to these fuckers. So of course they will only bother properly answering extremely simple questions that anyone can relate to, anything advanced or technical is a waste of time.
Generally, frequent answerers on SE don't really want to help you with your problem. They want to play the part of the guru who supposedly has god-tier skill and understanding, but conveniently never has to demonstrate it as he only answers basic, general questions from retards. Think of "experts" that go on daytime TV to give retarded answers to retarded questions, this is what SE's top users are moving towards.
>>988633
Those are just meme SEs that don't really fit the pattern. If you look at other QA SEs like workplace etc. you will see the same pattern of wilful retardation as on SO.
Code golf seems like a boring, pointless activity to me but if you enjoy it, that SE does seem like a decent place. Puzzling IMO is shit, the questions are always autistic and gay af.
>>988740
You must not be paying attention if you think SE is not pozzed. Many years ago it used to not be pozzed, and because of the complexity of their system it's taking them longer to poz it than other sites. But it's getting there.
I agree that they have a great system, but they allowed too much fuckery with their rules and ran it into the ground. It's a textbook case of a bureaucracy clinging to irrelevant metrics simply because they're easy to measure and fucking everything up. For example their obsession with having 0 unanswered question is partly the reason why people are overzealous now with flagging as dupe/off-topic. In the SO mod's minds, closing a hard to answer question as off topic is an improvement because it keeps the # of unanswered questions low, and even a question that isn't hard to answer but may take a while is more practical to just delete. After all, they don't track any metrics of "legit questions that got unfairly deleted" and it's very hard to appeal mod actions if you're not a pretty senior mod yourself.
I disagree that plebbit is worse, though. At this point plebbit can often give you better results because they have less pointless bureaucracy and rules like "no product recommendation". The only thing SE still has is the tagging and related questions system, which makes searching easier for things like certain syntactic expressions where ordinary plaintext web search doesn't work properly.
As for the other sites, they're trash that you can safely -site from your searches, what more can you say? They marketed directly to shit users, hoping to quickly grow a userbase and rake in the add dollars. The sites are worthless as a result. SE managed to attract only non-shit users in the beginning, but became a victim of its own success as shitters discovered it around 2010 and swarmed in like locusts.
>>988804
Same for skeptics, scifi, english, workplace, academia, and many others. Besides mainstream leftism, many sections also develop their own "correct" opinions on their subject matter. These start out as rules of thumb (eg. avoid using goto), get turned into memes by retards (eg. goto is teh evulzz!) and then self-appointed opinion police starts roaming the recent questions list with an itchy flag-finger (eg. question mentions goto, delete: off-topic).