Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)
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Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)
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Re: Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)
#2Stack Overflow is an amazingly useful programming resource - but - like most things has problems.
From my viewpoint, the main problem is the drive for "karma". You may visit an interesting question and you will often find that partial solutions (or solutions to a re-phrasing of the question [thats as kindly as I can put it])have a high score while the true and, more importantly complete, answer (probably written a few days after the original question was posed) has zero points.
There are also those who answer a factual question with an opinion - I am sure that Dante would have added another level in hell for just that sin should he have lived in the modern age.
Points are not everything but there is a tendency for the scoring system to mislead the seeker after a solution unless they are aware that all factual answers have value.
Re: Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)
#3Have to agree with the post ... there are occasions when you read the question and understand it is a newbie who has no clue what technical term to use when s/he does his search and hence could not get a simple answer. Instead of guiding, it gets voted down real bad and sometimes the person is not able to ask more questions
Re: Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)
#4(Post is from 2012)
Article contains ad hominem and personal opinions. Author is/was personally offended by certain events and his blog provides a source of relief for his distress.
I would comment on every specific paragraph, but the "arguments" are simply absurd.
This kind of post truly deserves to not be read.
Re: Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)
#5This is kind of symptomatic of online communities in general as they grow, no? Similar concerns exist around community behavior here on HN. Over the past year we've seen declining overall behavior as flocks of new people participate, new moderation systems introduced in an attempt to stem the tide of low-quality comments and karma-whoring actions, and varying levels of transparency into these systems.
The HN moderators (and SO's) seem to do a pretty good job, all things considered, but this is no simple problem to solve.
IMHO, the deep integration of crypto-currencies into these communities and karma systems is key to better self-moderation. Let the almighty dollar speak!
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Re: Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)
#7I remember being ridiculed for having more questions than answers. It's skewed to the idea that answering and contributing your thought is of more important than the question generating such thought.
Regardless, Stackoverflow has fell off it's high place.
Re: Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)
#8(Post is from 2012) Article contains ad hominem and personal opinions. Author is/was personally offended by certain events and his blog provides a source of relief for his distress. I would comment on every specific paragraph, but the "arguments" are simply absurd. This kind of post truly deserves to not be read.
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Re: Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)
#9yup. I also stopped participating there in 2012 or so. It's really quite a shame. I still find my way there from Google pretty frequently, but I don't bother asking or answering questions anymore
Re: Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)
#10Stack Overflow is an amazingly useful programming resource - but - like most things has problems. From my viewpoint, the main problem is the drive for "karma". You may visit an interesting question and you will often find that partial solutions (or solutions to a re-phrasing of the question [thats as kindly as I can put it])have a high score while the true and, more importantly complete, answer (probably written a fe…
The problem is that SO puts so much weight on points...I had to spend about two months just answering questions in order to have the rights to get any help, before I found out that I just need to say something popular without any real content to get all the points I need.