Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
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Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
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#2I didn't feel welcome the few times I tried answering questions
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#3Glad to see an active approach is being taken. SO is a great resource and contains some of the best information on the web IRT programming.
If there was only one thing I could change it would be this: If someone marks a question as duplicate, and closes, make them provide a link to the 'original' question and a brief summary as to why it is a duplicate.
Closing something as duplicate and then forcing the user who submitted the question to do more digging comes off as hostile, lazy, and even condescending. Sometimes the original question is lazy and un-researched, but in most cases it is hard to find the right search term for the problem you have.
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#4Personally, My primary frustration with Stack(Exchange|Overflow) sites is that I _can_ help people there, but I would need to confirm with them with a comment... and I can't because I don't have the points (???) to comment ,but I can answer.
I end up closing the tab, If the site won't give me the basic tools to help someone, then what is the point of letting me sign up.
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#5As relevant context, the impetus for this post was likely this Medium article + initial tweet, which received replies from SO leadership: https://medium.com/@Aprilw/suffering-on-stack-overflow-c4641...
As an aside, if anyone has a good heuristic to identify bad behavior on Stack Overflow, I'd be interested in looking into it since SO data is public. (please do not suggest "build an AI to identify toxic comments")
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#6I didn't feel welcome the few times I tried answering questions
Like you currently can't vote on HN?
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#7I didn't feel welcome the few times I tried answering questions
I'm kinda baffled by this complaint. [edit: OP has completely changed their post.]
I'd think most new SO users are looking for help or a solution to a problem. Why was not being able to vote yet so upsetting you abandoned the resource?
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#8Personally, My primary frustration with Stack(Exchange|Overflow) sites is that I _can_ help people there, but I would need to confirm with them with a comment... and I can't because I don't have the points (???) to comment ,but I can answer. I end up closing the tab, If the site won't give me the basic tools to help someone, then what is the point of letting me sign up.
Them accepting your answer is your confirmation. Just answer and they usually will tell you whether it's correct or helpful. Comments should not be necessary in many cases.
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#9>Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.
Women consider SO an elitist place? People of colour? What colour? Black? White? Marginalised groups? Which groups are those? Are people in SO hostile to Palestinians? Amputees? Such an accusation, where's the data to back it? I'm white and male and completely normal and let me tell you: everybody in SO behaves like a stuck-up twat to me. This has nothing to do with "diversity". Too many people are there sitting in a throne of points and medals and rubbish, closing comments and questions and editing whatever they see fit.
The truth of the matter is that you've had a code on conduct for a long time and everybody ignored it so this post is not going to change that. Why don't you just change the braindead voting system?
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#10I didn't feel welcome the few times I tried answering questions
I'm kinda baffled by this complaint. [edit: OP has completely changed their post.] I'd think most new SO users are looking for help or a solution to a problem. Why was not being able to vote yet so upsetting you abandoned the resource?
I tried being part of the community