I'm so scared of the people on stackoverflow that my method for debugging a problem is to write up a question by which time I'm shocked into finding a solution. I'm just too scared of being ridiculed by some narcissistic dev (who obviously never makes any mistakes, ever) or, heaven forbid, having my question down voted and closed.

I had this problem initially too. Just read up the guidelines. http://stackoverflow.com/help/... is a good place to start. Make sure you write at least SOME code in the question. Theory based doubts are usually already asked on the platform so your question is most likely to be marked duplicate and closed. Also, be sure to specify the details of the problem and log reports, if any. Make constant edits on the progress of your question to give extra information. You're good to go! All the best! :)

And yes some of these people are basically dicks. But if you give a code example others will help

Fully explained questions with code samples are broadly accepted.

Questions that tend to: "I want to do x, can somebody write me the code for it?" get closed.

I agree with this method of moderating, since it implies that it will provide qualitative good questions, although I agree that some moderators are too strict or sometimes too sarcastic.

I review questions and answers as well on SO, but I downvote or flag non-supportive comments (from other moderators) as well.

Still I think it's a great platform, but I think it's suffering from the "jQuery generation" as well.

Plus, although they are a lot of a-holes, it is compensating with the real experts that can save your day.

I've got a friend Dev whose like that, gives shit to anyone who posts anything about development, even though he's basically just a WordPress developer these days!