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Re: Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

#142
Not yet. ChatGPT recommended me about 7 deprecated ways of doing something yesterday before eventually giving up as it hasn't been trained on a current version of a library. A person on the Stack Exchange for the tech (Solana) had an answer in about 90 minutes.

Re: Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

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post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I had to repost my question This is against the rules. The fact that you did it anyway makes me believe that your original question probably broke other rules too, and that the "unhelpful" and "toxic" comments were probably telling you that.

You an SO mod? The "I'm just gonna presume your question broke some rules and you deserve shit for it" attitude suits you.

Is it not a reasonable assumption that someone who you know broke one rule probably broke others too?

Re: Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

#144

Imo the high ranking people today on SO are annoying as fuck and on a power trip. I haven’t asked question in a long time and I had a unique situation and asked the question. Within seconds some guy adds some snarky unhelpful and honestly toxic reply and I had to repost my question. I ran a quick survey and found others who have had similar experiences and I feel this is terrible for newbies and even people like me w…

Stackoverflow is like online gaming . Just mute/ignore the morons and jerks, and get on with you life. I've received a ton of hate on SO, but I've also received so many answers to questions that would have taken me at least a day to figure out on my own. Some angry dweeb launches a tirade at me, and some kind soul gives me an answer. Ignore the dweeb, go to lunch, ship the feature.

Re: Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

#145
post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You an SO mod? The "I'm just gonna presume your question broke some rules and you deserve shit for it" attitude suits you.

Is it not a reasonable assumption that someone who you know broke one rule probably broke others too?

Oh wow. I was going to write this whole thing about how just because someone posts a question twice doesn't mean that there's anything rule-breaking about the question itself; that the two seem almost entirely orthogonal. But I went searching for some rules, and I could not find the rule you're talking about. Hell, I wasn't even able to find anything which calls itself "rules" for how you're supposed to ask questions. Even the "What should I do if no one answers my question" help page [1] doesn't even advice against re-posting. All I can find is certain users claiming reposting is against the rules, but nothing official. (In fact, I'm having a hard time finding anything other than the CoC which describes itself as "rules" rather than guidelines intended to help the user write better questions or answers -- and even these don't advice against reposting.)

Maybe there is some deeply hidden rule against reposting. Or maybe you're just full of shit. But either way, reposting is clearly not a sign of reckless disregard for clearly laid out site rules, so the fact that a person has reposted their question does not indicate in any way that the person has a propensity for rule-breaking.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/help/no-one-answers

Re: Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

#146
I asked ChatGPT to give me a react component for _something I wanted to do_. The first version it gave me was bad but with some prompt tweaks I got exactly what I wanted.

I had searched the same thing on google and stackoverflow and found nothing.

Re: Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

#147

I asked ChatGPT to give me a react component for _something I wanted to do_. The first version it gave me was bad but with some prompt tweaks I got exactly what I wanted. I had searched the same thing on google and stackoverflow and found nothing.

I mean yeah, Google and especially StackOverflow aren't meant to give you fully ready components to use, they're there to give you answers to questions.

Re: Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

#148

I asked ChatGPT to give me a react component for _something I wanted to do_. The first version it gave me was bad but with some prompt tweaks I got exactly what I wanted. I had searched the same thing on google and stackoverflow and found nothing.

I mean yeah, Google and especially StackOverflow aren't meant to give you fully ready components to use, they're there to give you answers to questions.

Maybe I wasn't clear. I didn't expect the full component from Google, Stackoverflow or ChatGPT. ChatCPT exceeded my expectations.

I (obviously) searched for questions related to the work I was trying to do on Google and Stackoverflow and could not find anything useful at all.

Re: Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

#149
It's not a great place to get help anymore. My career has progressed since I first started, so most of my questions require more open ended format which often gets flagged.

Ex, when I first started, I would ask things like how do I do string interpolation in shell scripting? Now I have more questions that require considerations from different angles such as why should I use redux over react contexts? how has it been for people with large teams?

The point system also doesn't mean much. I have over 60k points from just asking basic programming questions from when I was in college.

Re: Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

#150

Imo the high ranking people today on SO are annoying as fuck and on a power trip. I haven’t asked question in a long time and I had a unique situation and asked the question. Within seconds some guy adds some snarky unhelpful and honestly toxic reply and I had to repost my question. I ran a quick survey and found others who have had similar experiences and I feel this is terrible for newbies and even people like me w…

Seriously.. I just posted a rather nuanced question (can a CSS gradient extend into over-scroll like color can), and it just got instantly closed by someone who didn’t understand the question at all. Apparently I need “cred” to even request review on this using their meta channels. Really bad FTUE.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75240915/is-it-possible-...

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