Stackoverflow

Don't get me wrong, I love Stackoverflow, I'll even admit I am fully addicted to checking it on a regular basis. And I am dying to get to 1000 Rep, and grab a few more badges. However, since the Beta ended, I am starting to seriously question its worth (initially when I started using it, I threw up a couple of test questions and some of them were answered very well). It seems to work best as a Mechanical Turk for those to lazy to spend 20 minutes on Google. If you can't find the answer in 1 google, then post it on Stackoverflow and the hoards, hungry for reputation will fight over who can answer it first. Now if it is a difficult question, someone usually posts one incredibly brief and very vague response and it never gets looked at again. This would be the main problem with Stackoverflow, useful enough for very easy questions, not so useful for the arcane. I may be wrong, and over time someone will answer some of the more difficult questions I have posted, but it hasn't happened yet. It seems if you actually tag something pretty specific, or be somewhat detailed in the title you are only going to get a few viewings and probably one or two bad answers.

BTW, the way to gain reputation is to look for broad categories that lots of people look at (you can flip through the popular questions and quickly see what they are), and follow those for a while and do the fastest gun in the west answer style. (Put up a very quick vague answer and then edit it before the five minute, you can change your answer time is up)