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Re: My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

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Post by 3JPLW »

_almosnow wrote: post #3

I used to love SO, but nowadays the proportion of assholes running the site is so big that it ruins everything. To give you an example, check out the last question I've asked there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27510345/c-map-assignment... . 11 downvotes and closed within a few hours; apparently I pissed off one of the moderators (when asking him why is my question "off-topic") and he invited his gang to downvo…

Well, you didn't just ask why it's off topic. You threw around insults and used very vulgar language. http://stackoverflow.com/posts/27510345/revisions

Re: My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

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Post by nitrogen »

_almosnow wrote: post #3

I used to love SO, but nowadays the proportion of assholes running the site is so big that it ruins everything. To give you an example, check out the last question I've asked there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27510345/c-map-assignment... . 11 downvotes and closed within a few hours; apparently I pissed off one of the moderators (when asking him why is my question "off-topic") and he invited his gang to downvo…

I'm not sure why the question was closed, but the name calling and vulgarity in the edit probably contributed to the downvotes.

http://stackoverflow.com/posts/27510345/revisions

Re: My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

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Post by _almosnow »

3JPLW wrote: post #11
_almosnow wrote: post #3

I used to love SO, but nowadays the proportion of assholes running the site is so big that it ruins everything. To give you an example, check out the last question I've asked there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27510345/c-map-assignment... . 11 downvotes and closed within a few hours; apparently I pissed off one of the moderators (when asking him why is my question "off-topic") and he invited his gang to downvo…

Well, you didn't just ask why it's off topic. You threw around insults and used very vulgar language. http://stackoverflow.com/posts/27510345/revisions

Actually I did ask, strange you didn't notice that since it's right there in the link you posted.

And yeah, you are right, I used the word 'cunt' after they started behaving like that, I'm sorry if that scared you; I did it because I was really pissed off by all their bs. Have you ever felt annoyed some time in your life? Apparently not, lucky you.

Re: My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

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Post by Arnt »

_almosnow wrote: post #3

I used to love SO, but nowadays the proportion of assholes running the site is so big that it ruins everything. To give you an example, check out the last question I've asked there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27510345/c-map-assignment... . 11 downvotes and closed within a few hours; apparently I pissed off one of the moderators (when asking him why is my question "off-topic") and he invited his gang to downvo…

Ruins what? That question is the kind of thing that helps only you. SO tries to be a site where one person gets an answer, and the same answer can later be found by a thousand people who google.

Your question asks people to help you, with no attempt at making this useful for others. I can see why people downvote such questions.

Re: My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

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Post by JScarry »

_almosnow wrote: post #13
3JPLW wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you didn't just ask why it's off topic. You threw around insults and used very vulgar language. http://stackoverflow.com/posts/27510345/revisions

Actually I did ask, strange you didn't notice that since it's right there in the link you posted. And yeah, you are right, I used the word 'cunt' after they started behaving like that, I'm sorry if that scared you; I did it because I was really pissed off by all their bs. Have you ever felt annoyed some time in your life? Apparently not, lucky you.

Maybe they don’t want people like you on the site. I wouldn’t.

Re: My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

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Post by Latty »

_almosnow wrote: post #3

I used to love SO, but nowadays the proportion of assholes running the site is so big that it ruins everything. To give you an example, check out the last question I've asked there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27510345/c-map-assignment... . 11 downvotes and closed within a few hours; apparently I pissed off one of the moderators (when asking him why is my question "off-topic") and he invited his gang to downvo…

I looked back at version one to see what people would have downvoted/closed for:

'I have tried to do that (by overloading operator[], operator=) but it doesn't seem like I'm going somewhere. Can anyone suggest me a way to achieve this behavior?'

You said you have tried, but you didn't post what you tried, or how it didn't work. This makes your question hard to answer, and essentially means anyone answering is going to have to write your code for you.

You then finished it up with a passive-aggressive FAQ section which was entirely unnecessary, and included 'I want to do it this way, even if there is a better way' - which is just a terrible way to go in asking a question.

StackOverflow gets incredible numbers of questions every day, and the reality is people are not willing to help people who actively make their questions harder to answer. That's not people being assholes, it's people getting burnt out trying to help the 20,000th help vampire (http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/).

Everyone who complains about StackOverflow, in my experience, tends to be someone who wants others to do work for them. Yes, SO doesn't do that. That's by design.

Re: My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

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Post by Guvante »

_almosnow wrote: post #3

I used to love SO, but nowadays the proportion of assholes running the site is so big that it ruins everything. To give you an example, check out the last question I've asked there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27510345/c-map-assignment... . 11 downvotes and closed within a few hours; apparently I pissed off one of the moderators (when asking him why is my question "off-topic") and he invited his gang to downvo…

You got the downvotes for editing your question to complain, including vulgarity in a few instances. People bitching in questions is a lot of peoples pet peeves (because it is frustrating to moderate correctly).

I would agree that "off-topic" is completely incorrect and I can't think of a valid reason to close it.

Re: My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

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Post by Guvante »

_almosnow wrote: post #10
Guvante wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Which site do I submit to" shouldn't be as hard of a problem for certain. Heck they removed a lot of options from that close reason to minimize this, as anything database related go punted to the DBA one (which is only for professional questions not minor schema questions).

Only problem with the sister sites is that their user base is much smaller than on SO and the value of SO pretty much boils down to "everyone's in there so someone may help me".

I find the true value of SO to be "populating google with good answers to questions", but that is just me :).

Re: My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

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Post by _almosnow »

Latty wrote: post #17
_almosnow wrote: post #3

I used to love SO, but nowadays the proportion of assholes running the site is so big that it ruins everything. To give you an example, check out the last question I've asked there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27510345/c-map-assignment... . 11 downvotes and closed within a few hours; apparently I pissed off one of the moderators (when asking him why is my question "off-topic") and he invited his gang to downvo…

I looked back at version one to see what people would have downvoted/closed for: 'I have tried to do that (by overloading operator[], operator=) but it doesn't seem like I'm going somewhere. Can anyone suggest me a way to achieve this behavior?' You said you have tried, but you didn't post what you tried, or how it didn't work. This makes your question hard to answer, and essentially means anyone answering is going t…

>You said you have tried, but you didn't post what you tried, or how it didn't work. >by overloading operator[], operator=

It's literally there...

>You then finished it up with a passive-aggressive FAQ section which was entirely unnecessary ... 'I want to do it this way, even if there is a better way'

What's wrong with that? I wanted to achieve a very specific thing. Can you please tell me what is wrong with that?

That FAQ is meant to avoid getting answers that I don't need. Have you ever used SO? When you do you'll see that these questions usually get a lot of responses like:

"Just drop C and go for Python, Python does everything for you XD"

"Just throw Boost in there and you're done [and turn your 1s compile time into 10 minutes] XDDD"

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