Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

Post by rbarooah » Fri, Mar 30, 2012, 9:34 AM UTC

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.

Post by antihero » Fri, Mar 30, 2012, 9:55 AM UTC

Post by obtu » Fri, Mar 30, 2012, 10:40 AM UTC

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…

Post by cruise02 » Fri, Mar 30, 2012, 10:49 AM UTC

georgieporgie wrote: post #154

cruise02 wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comments. What about them? The close message is auto-inserted so we don't have to take the time to comment. Irony, no. My tone here is a response to being called overzealous and condescending. It has nothing to do with my attitude when I'm acting as moderator on SO.

I don't understand why you seem to be attempting to speak for all moderators. I don't know or care what your attitude is about moderation, I'm speaking of my own personal experience with SO moderators.

Post by Piskvorrr » Fri, Mar 30, 2012, 11:27 AM UTC

jamiecurle wrote: post #159

Piskvorrr wrote: post #30

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Welllll...it takes, approximately, three to five useful answers. Note that they don't need to be The Answer To Life, Universe, And Everything; they don't need to be the longest, or fastest, or best-looking answers to that question - just useful. I've run a tiny experiment on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/users/779183/friar-tuck - it took me, from "logout and clear all cookies" to "Commenting privilege unlocked", twent…

I didn't mean to sound entitled, it's not a big deal to me (and others if I was to hazard a guess). Normally when I hit SO I'm stuck and often it's not on my dollar. I always intend to go back and add something, but when I do have free time, I like to get away from the computer and thus I never end up contributing.