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guys... should we tell him?
Tell him what? It is annoying that they don't return the output instantly. This does throttle usage, so I can see why they do it, but it is annoying.
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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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…
Here's an experiment: 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.
But I tried: scrolled two pages. Most questions were at 0 votes. But I checked every down voted question, and they were all useless. No code, just a vague statement of trying to do something.
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Here's an experiment: 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.
What should that prove? If anything, it backs up my point: the amount of noise is huge. But I tried: scrolled two pages. Most questions were at 0 votes. But I checked every down voted question, and they were all useless. No code, just a vague statement of trying to do something.
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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…
"why are you doing this" isn't a " irrelevant stupid comment ". It's because most askers are really asking a XY question. They ask for Y, since that's their immediate problem, but solving X is their real goal. So it's a question meant to make it easier to help, when doing Y seems a bit weird. https://xyproblem.info/ > The people on stack overflow, by and large, are not nice From your long rant, I'm not sure if you're…
Is quite a harsh personal attack, and probably contributes to the author's feelings regarding hostility and gatekeeping.
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"why are you doing this" isn't a " irrelevant stupid comment ". It's because most askers are really asking a XY question. They ask for Y, since that's their immediate problem, but solving X is their real goal. So it's a question meant to make it easier to help, when doing Y seems a bit weird. https://xyproblem.info/ > The people on stack overflow, by and large, are not nice From your long rant, I'm not sure if you're…
> 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. Is quite a harsh personal attack, and probably contributes to the author's feelings regarding hostility and gatekeeping.
But you're right, I should've avoided going personal.
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What should that prove? If anything, it backs up my point: the amount of noise is huge. But I tried: scrolled two pages. Most questions were at 0 votes. But I checked every down voted question, and they were all useless. No code, just a vague statement of trying to do something.
Veiled insult right there!
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…
Was your comment intended to be the perfect example of this? replying to a joke about insults in answers... by going on an entire rant about how it's easy not to get your question closed (which was not mentioned at all).
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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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…
The SO community can be pretty toxic with newcomers that don't ask questions in the "one true way". I can get away with asking questions because I know what will work, but that doesn't make the site friendlier. Also, God forbid you ask anything that can be considered "opinion based"...
It's clearly not allowed. People shouldn't be surprised when their answer gets closed. The goal of stack overflow is to build a quality mapping from questions to answers. There is no way to map a subjective question to an answer.