Tired of Stack Overflow
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Tired of Stack Overflow
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#2the site jumped the shark when they removed the question "new programming jargon you coined" which was easily the best one they ever had
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#3> Can people truly not comprehend how downvoting a post to -20 (or more) is perceived by the author of that post?
No, Stack Overflow high-rank users certainly do not. (A current community moderator literally said "Voting is not a friendly or unfriendly activity.") I've too suggested that the UI should be changed to be less abrasive and that high-rank people should be more accountable for their actions and been downvoted for that.
It's worth noting that this phenomenon of lack of empathy exists mostly in Stack Overflow, much less so in smaller communities where people don't generally have that much rank. At least that's what I saw with my personal empirical observation of Arduino SE. Not to mention the high-rank users loathe the welcoming initiative SO made, because god forbid they can't be snarky asses without getting flagged any more.
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#4One thing that always bothered me about SO was that it shows who answered and their score. It should display answers without the user until an answer is accepted.
There’s been many cases where a high score user answers, gets a lot of upvotes cos people are like “oh his score is 30k so he must be right” yet the answer is not good or incorrect. And there is a better more correct answer by someone with a Low score who get few votes.
Voting should be unbiased and be based on the answer. Not the person who answered.
Re: Tired of Stack Overflow
#5the site jumped the shark when they removed the question "new programming jargon you coined" which was easily the best one they ever had
For the curious, the top 30 responses were reblogged by Jeff Atwood: https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
Archive.org link to the original question here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120210110752/https://stackover...
Re: Tired of Stack Overflow
#6the site jumped the shark when they removed the question "new programming jargon you coined" which was easily the best one they ever had
For the curious, the top 30 responses were reblogged by Jeff Atwood: https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ Archive.org link to the original question here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120210110752/https://stackover...
I refuse to look at this.
Basically the guy stole the work of many people for himself.
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#7One thing that always bothered me about SO was that it shows who answered and their score. It should display answers without the user until an answer is accepted. There’s been many cases where a high score user answers, gets a lot of upvotes cos people are like “oh his score is 30k so he must be right” yet the answer is not good or incorrect. And there is a better more correct answer by someone with a Low score who g…
Maybe for Stack Overflow, but for more scientific Stack Exchange sites with smaller communities I find the username to be really useful.
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#8One thing that always bothered me about SO was that it shows who answered and their score. It should display answers without the user until an answer is accepted. There’s been many cases where a high score user answers, gets a lot of upvotes cos people are like “oh his score is 30k so he must be right” yet the answer is not good or incorrect. And there is a better more correct answer by someone with a Low score who g…
Even reddit made the switch to a similar system. unknown points until later.
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#9Anecdotal: Searching github issues has long since surpassed the usefulness of stackoverflow for me.
Possibly the types of questions I need answered has changed, but I think it's more that everything on stackoverflow is out of date or off topic. Or the people who could answer are also the people who are too busy and/or don't care enough to play the karma game.
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#10One thing that always bothered me about SO was that it shows who answered and their score. It should display answers without the user until an answer is accepted. There’s been many cases where a high score user answers, gets a lot of upvotes cos people are like “oh his score is 30k so he must be right” yet the answer is not good or incorrect. And there is a better more correct answer by someone with a Low score who g…
This is a feature. The person who answered is specifically indicated with their reputation to help sort among answers.
It's like if you have a health-related question and get answers from two people: A trained surgeon and your mate from the pub (Edit: who's obviously not trained or knowledgeable on the topic, jeez). A priori whose answer is the more insightful?
If you're not knowledgeable and get a number of anonymous answers it may be difficult to get an idea of their relative 'values'.