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> I've always treated SO more like a knowledgeable coworker to help when I get stuck.

Not too knowledgeable though, in my experience if you are the knowledgeable colleague in a domain, SO will not help you unless you're in one of the domains with a legendary SO contributor (e.g. C# because of Jon Skeet if you manage to get their attention), and unlike a knowledgeable colleague it won't assist you in looking for a clarification or solution either.



Even in C# there are plenty of dodgy answers and stuff that is plain wrong yet accepted and upvoted.




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