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Likewise. I usually only end up searching the web-in-general for answers when the product documentation doesn't help. When that's led me to stackexchange, more often than not the threads asking my exact question have been closed as "too general" or similar. The most recent example, in my case, was: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10166086/good-examples-of... "Can anybody recommend some [PHP] programs for me to loo…
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. The mods are power crazed and addicted to closing questions. If people are answering, and upvoting those answers, or the question, then the question is worthy and shouldn't be closed. End of story.
It also seems like they have a lot of help vampires as I see many questions where the correct answer doesn't have even a single upvote.