The decision to close my question in spite of it having a clear technical difference made no sense at all. It honestly felt like a bot that just noticed that a lot of the content of the question was related to other questions-a bot without the ability to understand why the question is literally different.
Why is SO like this these days. Is it just because there is such a large history of content in the site, that it’s easy for people who don’t want to think to just mark questions closed?
There are very few novel questions and the ones that are there use outdated apis.
The reason is that while using SO you generally reach similar errors and then read answers and try to make sense out of the problem you are having, that's fantastic, but being able to explicitly state your problem and make followup questions on it is even better.
Yesterday I had to engage with a project using Redux. It has been a while since I touched that technology so I went forward and gave a summary of it to ChatGPT asking if I was correct on my assumptions, from there onwards I made a couple more explanations, a couple questions and I was done. I think this ability to further prod with questions is too good of a feature to pass on.
moderation there is done so poorly it has become a meme of sorts, so even if and when it improves, any improvement in perception will lag... and because users choose to use the site based on their perception of its value rather than its true value, it has sort of become a vicious cycle
