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And yet I have no issues finding answers to my question when using a search engine. I'm sure if a slippery slope is detected, SO will change its policy back.
Most of the timeless answers were given 5 years ago though.
It won’t truly match the experience, unless it can inject veiled insults into the answers. /s
It won’t truly match the experience, unless it can inject veiled insults into the answers. /s
I've asked this before, but is having a domain name with someone else's business name in it allowed? The answer I was given last time was you can buy it it but you might not get to keep it. Still, I can't help but think it would be inevitable legal trouble.
It won’t truly match the experience, unless it can inject veiled insults into the answers. /s
I see people complain about how their "well researched and well articulated question got closed" all the time, but when prompted no one every actually provides a link to their question. Which makes me believe it actually just was a low effort noisy question after all..
If anything, HN is much more snarky, just look at the comments on anything here.
The video shows an answer being written out using some sort of animation technique to give it a dramatic effect. Looks gimmicky.
guys... should we tell him?
It won’t truly match the experience, unless it can inject veiled insults into the answers. /s
I don't get this hate-boner HN has for SO. Have you tried being active there? It's super easy to not have your question closed, just do the minimum amount of effort. And if you're active, you'll see the thousands of similar questions arrive every day. If you're active in the review queues, you will see all the spam, broken answers, non-SO fitting questions etc. people churn out. I see people complain about how their…
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Everybody got what they wanted and it’s much “nicer” now (it won’t even let you comment “what have you tried?” anymore, for instance). Wouldn’t you know it, the front page is now full of low-quality, low-effort questions.
I mostly no longer contribute to stack overflow. I don’t ask questions, because people take a very carefully explained, explicit question and post irrelevant stupid comments on it (“why are you doing this?”) instead of answering the question. I don’t answer questions, because people upvote wrong answers and vindictively downvote answers to the actual question (which is why everyone posts comments instead of answering…
> The people on stack overflow, by and large, are not nice
From your long rant, I'm not sure if you're coming off any better. To me it sounds like SO should be happy someone like you isn't contributing.
It won’t truly match the experience, unless it can inject veiled insults into the answers. /s
I don't get this hate-boner HN has for SO. Have you tried being active there? It's super easy to not have your question closed, just do the minimum amount of effort. And if you're active, you'll see the thousands of similar questions arrive every day. If you're active in the review queues, you will see all the spam, broken answers, non-SO fitting questions etc. people churn out. I see people complain about how their…
Visit new questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions?tab=Newest
Scroll until you find an upvoted question. Count how many downvotes you see on the way. You can often get to page 2 with dozens of downvotes before the first upvote.
Hard mode: Scroll until the net upvotes are more than the net downvotes.