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Agreed. Some other points of tension in Stack Exchanges:

1) People want to ask homework questions (_eg_ on Biology, Chemistry, etc). I understand why that is not allowed, but that doesn't change people's desire to 'just have an answer, now!'. I guess that AI could really take over this niche.

2) Others want to ask very open-ended 'discussion' questions that require back-and-forth to get to the answer, which may be on the edge of known research.

While I do understand why people get frustrated about these things, as you point out - this is not what SO (and SEs) are 'for'.



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