• danhab99@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    IDK what shitoverflow gets out of being so fucking toxic. I asked one dumb question and I’m basically banned from posting on the website.

    It feels like they’re trying to be a sort of “wikipedia” of every programming problem and solution. The problem is that eventually everything will be posted, and everyone will be banned from the website.

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      1 year ago

      You lack vision, but I see a place where people get blocked and their questions opened then immediately closed as duplicates. Opened and closed, opened and closed all day, all night. Soon, where the internet once stood will be a string of condescending experts, admonitions that “you shouldn’t do that, do Y instead”, pleas for information closed as off-topic. Passive aggression, spiteful ego contests and wonderful, wonderful karma meters reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it’ll be beautiful.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        “you shouldn’t do that, do Y instead”

        That’s one of my favorites: ignore the problem, only pick on the scope we can’t change.

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          I asked for advice on how to express something in UML once:

          “No one cares whether you follow the UML standard, just make something up”

          “But my company uses waterfall and requires UML diagrams to move onto the next phase of development!”

          “That’s an issue with your company then. Ask your boss how to do it. Question closed.”

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      It feels like they’re trying to be a sort of “wikipedia” of every programming problem and solution.

      That is exactly what stackoverflow is supposed to be. It’s not there to answer your question about “why is my IF statement not working”, it’s there to be a resource for all developers. How is a question about your specific problem gonna helps anyone ? If you haven’t, take the time to read the “how to ask” section, it describes what kind of questions are acceptable and what kind are not.

      There is, obviously, some proper questions that should not have been deleted, but most of them are not suited for the site, as they don’t bring anything to the rest of the community.

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        1 year ago

        If SO supposed to be wiki, then why there no clear way to update the answer with new information? Why only the person that asked the question can mark answer as correct? Clearly some person with more expirience should have possibility to mark answer as correct.

        • Spike@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          “You should be making a wiki page instead of a forum.”

          • SO user on SO business model, thread closed Aug 2008
    • MBM@lemmings.world
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      1 year ago

      The problem is that eventually everything will be posted, and everyone will be banned from the website.

      I don’t think they see that as a problem, that’s the goal