Comment Re:I gave up on SO (Score 2) 618
The StackExchange sites have a weak spot for late answers. The voting and sorting system reward mediocre answers that are posted early over great answers that are posted months or years later. That means that the best answer is sometimes half way down the page and may never reach the top.
It is often problematic that the person who asked the question gets sole control over which answer is at the top via the green check mark that "accepts" the answer. I've seen them choose some really bone-headed answers as accepted on occasion. There is just no way for the community to over-ride them, even with at 10:1 ratio of votes on some other answer.
My other pet-peeve is the large number of separate StackExchange sites with somewhat overlapping topics. It is almost impossible to figure out where to post a question sometimes. Most of the sites have non-obvious rules about what is off-topic. You are likely to ask in the wrong place and get your question closed the way it is set up. For example if you have a question about the security of Google Analytics for your WordPress website running on IIS. You might ask it on Security, WordPress, Webmasters, WebApps, or Server Fault. Most people seem to just ask it on StackOverflow because it is the one they know.