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

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Post by ycedmart » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 1:48 AM UTC

bdg wrote: post #173

georgieporgie wrote: post #155

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First off, realize that I don't actually care about the FAQ or site rules at all. I care about getting value out of a site. That's true of everyone. Second, I asked a question, and I believe it was a good one. However, it was closed for being "too conversational," whatever that means. Instead of merely answering my question, the mods instead chose to make condescending comments, which eventually lead to an answer in…

> First off, realize that I don't actually care about the FAQ Has it ever occurred to you that you're a fool? You complain about the site and have no regard for the rules or what the site is. It's not your spam-filled phpBB site that you dump the same 'plzzz halllpp I can't get $_[get] when I make a post!!11' nonsense onto every day. > it was closed for being "too conversational," whatever that means I'm calling you…

He's not full of it at all. He's describing a very real SO issue (one of many) and, as usual, the SO-fanbois/shills are getting on their high-horse explaining that SO is perfect, that there is nothing to see, that mods cannot possibly be overzealous, etc. And all this using a "tone", as usual...

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

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Post by ycedmart » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 1:58 AM UTC

More than 2k rep on SO (cool, I can edit ; ) in three months or so (one question, all the rest being answers and editing -- won a lot of +2 with my edits, before I was 2k rep). But I consider closing my account (and even behaving a bit like an ae by 'ragequitting' and purposefully destroying my most upvoted answers: I know it's bad, but I feel like I got cheated and saw my time "stolen" for me).

Overzealous mods did delete two perfectly fine answers because the question (not my answers) were offtopic. You can point out as much as you want that for SEO purposes SO explains that near-dupes are not that bad and that the time you spent answering should not be wasted by an overzealous mod (only removing value, by destroying what others created), they'll come with excuses and always refuse to admit wrongdoing.

You can criticize me as much as you want and tell me it's childish (I'm 40) to "ragequit" but I honestly feel I've been cheated by the site.

I was a well-behaving user there (still am), helping people (50 answers for one question). And then I encountered an overzealous mod not only acting like an arse using his mod power but also acting like a condescending jerk in comments.

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

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Post by cruise02 » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 3:59 PM UTC

ycedmart wrote: post #199

cruise02 wrote: post #167

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Provide some links, please.

There's no need for anyone to provide links. A lot of people are complaining about this. And as soon as anyone tries to post in meta about this issue (the issue of mods over-zealously closing questions), these posts in meta get downvoted to no avail and there's a flamefest of "high horse" posts... By mods! Constantly defending themselves, just like you do here. It's always the same "link or it didn't happen" and then…

"Link or it didn't happen" is a perfectly valid response to empty complaints that provide no evidence. As a moderator I'm in a position to actually do something about real problems. If you just whine and complain without giving me a link I can't do anything about it.

No, I wasn't taking a tone. If I was I wouldn't say that I wasn't. If you perceived a tone, it's on your end. I'd thank you to not call me a liar.