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Why Stack Overflow questions get closed so often

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The internet's primary coding resource functions primarily by intimidating junior developers. If you ask a question, there is a massive chance it will be aggressively locked, flagged as a duplicate of an irrelevant thread from 2012, or bombarded by elitists telling you your entire approach is fundamentally wrong without actually providing the answer.

Why Stack Overflow questions get closed so often
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