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The one advantage of actually trying to use SO was that the fear of asking a question usually made me do so much research that I'd solve my issue in the process

The one advantage of actually trying to use SO was that the fear of asking a question usually made me do so much research that I'd solve my issue in the process of fully describing it. That did also make the community lose out on the answer though.

inigyou 2mo ago
You can write a self-answered question.
- bombcar 2mo ago
  Knowing SO you’d get marked as a duplicate of your own question, then deleted.
  - inigyou 2mo ago
    A question can't be a duplicate of itself. There is no reason to make up reasons why SO is bad when there are plenty of real reasons.
    - bombcar 2mo ago
      Reminds me that they also seem to really not like sarcasm/humor.