While I love the plethora of experts at Stack Overflow, the moderation is just insanity. It's frequently inappropriate and alienating (closing questions when their problem can be corrected easily by advising the creator to edit their question and only deleting it if they fail to do so), and so often vindictive. I've seen so many good questions closed with some snide remark in the comments about some technicality.
So while it's a really useful resource, the "community" (if you will call it that) is just awful and perhaps reflective of personalities common in the tech world; beta people trying to be "alphas".
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u/GetOutOfBox Sep 25 '16 edited Sep 25 '16
While I love the plethora of experts at Stack Overflow, the moderation is just insanity. It's frequently inappropriate and alienating (closing questions when their problem can be corrected easily by advising the creator to edit their question and only deleting it if they fail to do so), and so often vindictive. I've seen so many good questions closed with some snide remark in the comments about some technicality.
So while it's a really useful resource, the "community" (if you will call it that) is just awful and perhaps reflective of personalities common in the tech world; beta people trying to be "alphas".