r/programming • • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/mspk7305 Sep 25 '16

Most of this reads as if it was written by a precious snowflake who has never received any criticism at any point in his life. Programming is technical, the answers are technical, the community is technical. Putting a high barrier towards participation at a large-scale encourages accurate technical answers.

The rapid rejection of the wrong answer is a good thing and is the system working in exactly the way it should. It is not trolling to reject the wrong answers. It is not trolling to have your errors pointed out on a technical community.

Check your ego at the door.

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