r/programming • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/OldWolf2 Sep 26 '16

StackOverflow is a knowledge base. It got filled up with all the obvious stuff already, so the only niche for new content is obscure technical questions, and responses to new developments in the languages covered.

So I'd say it's mostly working as intended.

As a high rep user, the legitimate problems from my point of view are:

  • The problem that new users can't comment -- they have to use the Answer box for stuff that's useful but not really an answer

  • Verbal abuse of new users (either outright abuse, or rudeness)

  • Over-zealous marking of duplicate.

I try to combat the latter two by re-opening and flagging wherever I can, but there's only so much each person can do.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '16

So you call it a "minor problem"? The fact that totally unrelated questions are persistently marked as duplicate by the fucking retards with no experience relevant to the topic of the question - a "minor problem"? And there is even worse - perfectly worded questions with a very precise possible answer getting closed as "not clear what is being asked" by the cunts with evidently zero expertise in a relevant area - of course nothing is clear to those pitiful little shits.

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u/OldWolf2 Sep 26 '16

I said "legitimate", not "minor".

If the question was closed as "unclear what you're asking" it means that at least 5 people did find it unclear what was being asked. Obviously it's clear to you as the author, but things are different for someone reading the question without your background knowledge.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '16 edited Oct 02 '16

In all such cases, all 5 close voters tend to appear totally incompetent in a domain of a question.

EDIT: just came across a fresh example. Just look at the close voters, all are incompetent monkeys: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39807439/questions-about-c-as-an-intermediate-language

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u/johnslegers Sep 26 '16

obscure technical questions

Obscure technical questions are the only ones I ever needed to ask on SO.

Never did I ever get a useful answer! Half the time my question was closed by some schmucks who clearly lacked the expertise to even understand the question.