<story><title>How to program if you are blind</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/q/118984/127880</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zainny</author><text>Locked. I honestly don&apos;t know why anyone would bother contributing to Stack Overflow at this point. It seems to basically be the hosting ground for answers to hard factual questions answered in most documentation/materials elsewhere, and a virtual wasteland of locked/deleted questions that are actually of use in the non-black and white world we live and work in. This real world ambiguity seems like it is completely intolerable to the mods at SO.&lt;p&gt;Not sure how the rest of you feel but in my mind if the answer is black and white, the question was probably bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yen223</author><text>&amp;#62; &quot;It seems to basically be the hosting ground for answers to hard factual questions answered in most documentation/materials elsewhere&quot;&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; what StackOverflow is meant to be.&lt;p&gt;I feel like I&apos;m the only one who appreciates what StackOverflow is trying to achieve here - to be the place to document hard, solid facts - nothing more. If I wanted to read commentary and opinions on programming, there&apos;s always HN or Slashdot.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to program if you are blind</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/q/118984/127880</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zainny</author><text>Locked. I honestly don&apos;t know why anyone would bother contributing to Stack Overflow at this point. It seems to basically be the hosting ground for answers to hard factual questions answered in most documentation/materials elsewhere, and a virtual wasteland of locked/deleted questions that are actually of use in the non-black and white world we live and work in. This real world ambiguity seems like it is completely intolerable to the mods at SO.&lt;p&gt;Not sure how the rest of you feel but in my mind if the answer is black and white, the question was probably bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logn</author><text>Exactly. I&apos;ve desperately needed answers to a handful of questions in the last 2 weeks alone that were all locked. I think unless you can quote an error message there&apos;s a good chance it will be locked. Didn&apos;t know server hard drive space came at such a premium. Honestly what good does it do to lock a question? I can see wikipedia wanting to groom their site to maintain some credibility and focus to achieve high overall quality with limited editing resources. But Stack Overflow? Give up the power trip already. How has Joel not created Subjective Overflow already?</text></comment>