On: What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?

[EGreg]

Before StackOverflow, this was Q&A for programmers:

https://xkcd.com/979/

[caymanjim → EGreg]

Whenever that happens to me, it turns out that I'm the one who had the same question ten years earlier, and I still don't know the solution.

[dagw → caymanjim]

I once had it turn out to that the post was made by my project manager 5 year ago, trying to fix the same obscure bug he'd just assigned to me, and running into the same problem I just did. He'd completely forgotten about it.

[ldiracdelta → caymanjim]

Ask it again. See if you get a duplicate flag pointing to your old question. Happened to me..

[Humdeee → EGreg]

Or when they answer their own question simply with: "Nevermind, figured it out", and leaves it at that.

Virtually sadistic.