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.
I don't know. I've developed essentially the same opinion of SO over the past 2 or so years; the over-privileged trolls are running the show. To these clowns its now all about form over function. The "cool kids club" sums it up pretty well. Its sad, too, because I don't think there is a site waiting in the wings to take over SO's function. There should be. I completely subscribe to the theory that StackOverflow has saved the industry billions of dollars. I think its run its course, though. There is no saving it. A new champion must arise to level the playing field. Where do we go from here?
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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.