RE: https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115852927913242505
One eye-opening thing I discovered when I started working at Stack Overflow was how many junk questions were filtered out automatically by the software. Then even more questions are rejected by the community. Finally questions are just left unanswered, which might be the most discouraging thing of all. The "Optimizing for pearls" philosophy suggests that aggressive filtering of questions encourages great answers.
And yet, when answer rates started to fall off there didn't seem to be much concern either in the community or at the company. Ultimately the culture of Stack Overflow assumed questions would continue flooding in. Now they are not and that means fewer great answers.