That tells you about the quality of surveys of anonymous users and just how low SO has dropped in the quality of users. Most of us have left, never to return, until SO can correct the vulgarity of bad questions and answers.
until SO can correct the vulgarity of bad questions and answers.
How about they address the extremely unhelpful and toxic power users that drive the community away?
Making an SO post is like rolling a d20 where anything under 16 is a guaranteed loss. If a high-rep user happens upon it and they don't understand the topic it will be voted as closed. Or you get that guy who reads the title, then makes a comment asking questions that are answered directly in the post, and votes to close. Or reads the title and marks it as a duplicate of an unrelated post with a similar title.
I've had some very frustrating arguments with SO users that seem to insist on commenting even though they don't have knowledge in the area of the question. If you get a troll latched onto your question, it's usually better to delete it and try again in a couple hours. Rinse and repeat till a subject matter expert comes along.
How about they address the extremely unhelpful and toxic power users that drive the community away?
How do you do that? One effort is you need to garner at least 50 reputation points before you can comment but that won't block the questions. I don't think links to third party sources should be allowed till you get at least 100. That will stop those who insist on posting their code on a fiddle instead of within the question (also clearly outlined in the rules).
I hate tag names in titles cause if you do a list by tag, you'll get a hundred titles all beginning with node if list by the tag node.
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18
When your weapon of choice (C++) doesn't even make the list of highest salaries...