Oddly I realize that I rarely find a reason to end up on Stack Overflow these days.
Tired of Stack Overflow
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Re: Tired of Stack Overflow
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
He credits all contributions to their respective user
Re: Tired of Stack Overflow
#13Yes, yes, and more YES.
Some of my best SO experiences have been answering questions that got ridiculous downvotes (more -1 and -3 than -75, but still). If SO has already answered this particular question, then great—do a better job of leading questioners to it. If not, get out of the way and let's answer the question here.
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#14One 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.
I’m not saying remove it for ever. Just for a period of time or until an answer is selected.
Re: Tired of Stack Overflow
#15I'm tired with their fragmenting their site into airtight topic specific QA sites, now with many questions one isn't sure where to post it to get max eyeballs. I feel that is something that could have avoided by design. Topics could have been managed through tags, instead of walling them off into separate sites.
And the obsolescence, things are moving so fast in JavaScript, Android, even in QT, Clojure etc, many answers including accepted ones are obsolete, and misleading.
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#16I really think it's better to just have an up vote arrow and no down vote option, for questions at least. The only reason on a site like that to really vote something down should be if something is off topic or against the rules, in which case you have a report button. If a question just straight up doesn't interest you or you don't want to answer it, then ignoring it rather than voting it down seems like the reasonable response. I also know that since visibility is based on how your score matches up to others, some people will just go and vote down every other recent question so theirs stands out more (unless stack overflow has protection against such things, I know it happens on similar sites)
I can maybe see an argument for answers to questions being down vote-able, since people may sometimes give answers that are wrong/misleading but maybe not to such a degree that they deserve to be expunged by moderators.
Re: Tired of Stack Overflow
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The Creative Commons license disagrees with your characterization. Plus Jeff founded Stack Overflow, so it's odd to single him out if republishing works legally is stealing.
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#18One 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.
The parenting comment suggest something different than what Reddit does. Reddit hides the comment's score, the comment suggest hiding the commenter's profile altogether so you can't see the commenter's reputation on the site.
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#19> and just had to add their own downvote
On the Internet you don't exist unless you act, there are no points just for showing up. Thus the plethora of useless votes and comments (such as my comment here :) ).
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#20One 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 anonymou…
If you’re using a public forum for health questions then you have bigger problems to worry about.
But put it this way. Trained surgeon A who has 5 years experience and has been on the site for 3 years has 4000 reputation. Answers a question.
A trained surgeon with 26 years experience who joined the site last week and has a reputation of 200 supplies a far better answer with added explanation of why and how etc.
You look at it and say oh wow 4000 reputation he must know more than the other guy. I’ll take his advice over the 200 reputation guy.