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Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by cruise02 »

huhtenberg wrote: post #112
cruise02 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can't downvote an answer that is patently absurd. I can't upvote an answer that is right. Apparently that's because I have to prove myself first. Yeah, that's kind of the idea. Why would anyone trust you until you've proven yourself? Do you just want privileges handed to you? > If I write a response (that damn sure answers the question), it sits at zero, because its usefulness appears to be directly dependent on…

Lovely response. Thank you for taking time to type it. The original point was that the very existence of SO reputation entices the wrong kind of priorities and behavior on the site. Hence the "newbie" problem. What I would've done is this: (a) hide reputation counters from the public view (b) for questions - let people upvote them or report them, no downvoting (c) for answers/comments - replace up/down arrows with fo…

I don't think you understand the "newbie" problem, as it has nothing to do with reputation and everything to do with real-world knowledge. Until you've proven that you have a little bit of knowledge (and not just arrogantly asserted it) you don't get to vote. If anyone could vote immediately then every post that got linked on reddit would have 250,000 useless upvotes.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by mark-r »

simonsarris wrote: post #14

I participate a lot , but almost exclusively in the (HTML5) Canvas tag. Because I don't answer much else I've got a smallish reputation for a frequent visitor(12K). I'm the top answer-er for the Canvas tag, having answered around ~10% of all questions ever asked about Canvas on StackOverflow. I would say that reputation numbers don't necessarily measure engagement per se in S.O. very well. I've found that if I answer…

I've always felt that reputation is an imperfect proxy for how helpful you've been, which is the important thing in the end. That screen shot is a much more direct measure - you should be proud of it!

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by cruise02 »

georgieporgie wrote: post #116

I got tired of the thankless task of doing other peoples' work, along with the overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. In particular, I recall going so far as to read vendor-specific documentation for someone, and providing example code to parse the binary data in question. It was probably an hour of my work and I didn't even get a 'thank you', much less any reputation bum…

> overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible.

SO moderator here. We just click a link. The pre-defined close reasons are inserted automatically. No one is taking a tone with you.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by georgieporgie »

cruise02 wrote: post #124
georgieporgie wrote: post #116

I got tired of the thankless task of doing other peoples' work, along with the overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. In particular, I recall going so far as to read vendor-specific documentation for someone, and providing example code to parse the binary data in question. It was probably an hour of my work and I didn't even get a 'thank you', much less any reputation bum…

> overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. SO moderator here. We just click a link. The pre-defined close reasons are inserted automatically. No one is taking a tone with you.

We just click a link

Comments.

No one is taking a tone with you.

Oh, the irony.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by casperOne »

timpost wrote: post #7

My reputation slowed down to a crawl after becoming a moderator.

I'm trying to post, as I want to keep my MVP award (free MSDN subscription, what), but yeah, moderation sucks not just the time, but the will to put something back into the system sometimes.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by casperOne »

cruise02 wrote: post #16
timpost wrote: post #7

My reputation slowed down to a crawl after becoming a moderator.

Man, tell me about it. I was in the top 10 when I became a mod, now I'm on page 3. btw, this is Bill. :)

Because the mods haven't all looked at your email addy already and figured it out? =)

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by aalear »

codyrobbins wrote: post #118
georgieporgie wrote: post #116

I got tired of the thankless task of doing other peoples' work, along with the overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. In particular, I recall going so far as to read vendor-specific documentation for someone, and providing example code to parse the binary data in question. It was probably an hour of my work and I didn't even get a 'thank you', much less any reputation bum…

I actually don’t use Stack Overflow as a contributor for precisely the same reason: I created my account with an OpenID, the provider is no longer around, and now I can’t log in nor fix it.

You can create a new account and ask for the accounts to be merged.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by brazzy »

rhizome wrote: post #66
codesuela wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is my impression of SO too. If you want to gain reputation the most viable approach is to keep hitting F5 and answer simple questions before someone else and therefore it has become a race instead of a display of knowledge if it's reputation that you are hunting for. I believe it wasn't as hectic about one and a half year ago when I joined.

Except that the simple-question askers tend to be unconcerned with their acceptance rate.

overall you get a much larger percentage of your reputation from upvotes rather than having your answers accepted.
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