> Contribute a new question that was well stated and broadly applicable and get a response. You had to earn your answers

After hundreds of thousands of rep points (it's a long time I haven't been there,) - this is simply not true anymore.

It was the case at the very beginning, and then there was a flood of useless questions, and the psychotic users decided to downvote everyone. Some groups (such as Golang) became a real sect. Meta was for unhinged psychopaths.

I loved SO and spent a long time there. At some point it became a 4chan. Shame.

Plenty of the nework sites zre still great though.