Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow
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Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow
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#3I enjoy answering questions but like the poster, I kind of hold my breath any time I do.
Toxic downvoting is not just a question thing. There are people who will downvote any and every answer even a correct one to a question they feel is unworthy of an answer.
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#4SO has an additional problem the article's author doesn't get to: high-voted answers that at the time were relevant and correct, but are not relevant now due to time passing and Microsoft aligning Windows to fit their current direction. I reckon this problem exists for other technologies that change with time, too.
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#5reddit is a lot more frendlier so I'm using SO mostly read only.
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#6I enjoy answering questions but like the poster, I kind of hold my breath any time I do. Toxic downvoting is not just a question thing. There are people who will downvote any and every answer even a correct one to a question they feel is unworthy of an answer.
I think a big problem is voters are not shown and verified. If you upvote or downvote a post your id should show and you must provide a reason why the vote.
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#7I would love to see the author's posts
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#8Anything you post on Stack Overflow gets automatically downvoted no matter what.
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#9My pet Stack Overflow annoyance: the number of questions that have highly voted confidently incorrect answers or (perhaps worse?) answers that do work, but not for the reason in the confidently incorrect explanation that follows the ‘what to do’ part of the answer.
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#10SO has an additional problem the article's author doesn't get to: high-voted answers that at the time were relevant and correct, but are not relevant now due to time passing and Microsoft aligning Windows to fit their current direction. I reckon this problem exists for other technologies that change with time, too.
Indeed, I was recently looking for some information, and all the SO results I turned up were for the language in question as of 2011, and found to be inapplicable.