You posted a trivial question you knew the answer to, and then posted your trivial solution, at which point you were told that it was preferred if people asked genuine questions they didn't know the answer to.
If anything, people knocked you for not providing enough substance-- and I don't see anything "social" about the interaction at all.
There's a lot of things wrong with StackOverflow-- but you're not offering much of a critique.
You posted a trivial question you knew the answer to, and then posted your trivial solution, at which point you were told that it was preferred if people asked genuine questions they didn't know the answer to.
If anything, people knocked you for not providing enough substance-- and I don't see anything "social" about the interaction at all.
There's a lot of things wrong with StackOverflow-- but you're not offering much of a critique.