Exactly.
StackOverflow was always just an "answer machine".
They wanted it to be a community, but it never was.
Actually in the beginning it tried to be a community but they forced it to be only an answer machine. They created and enforced a rule against anything outside of the strict Q&A format.
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Actually in the beginning it tried to be a community but they forced it to be only an answer machine. They created and enforced a rule against anything outside of the strict Q&A format.