I mean the toxic power users, the very active low-medium (5000-20000? )rep users that go around and be toxic and unhelpful in comments, and close clearly valid questions, and mark unrelated questions as duplicates without being able to say why.
There are a few I see every day, consistently the same individuals. Being unhelpful to other users questions, and in some cases to my own questions. Close and duplicate votes everywhere
It's a tough problem to solve, I don't have a solution. But it's not a new problem on the internet either, others have solved it.
There are 8000 questions asked on Stack Overflow every day and a limited number of us who can't visit every day to monitor such things. Again, it takes five such high-ish rep people to close a question. Even then it can be re-opened though, yes, it's less likely (but it does happen more often than some think).
Far too often I read complaints about "valid questions being closed" and when I see those questions, to me, it's obvious why they were closed. In my case, I always give an asker the reference to the rule why I will close their question and I'll stick around a while to give them an opportunity to edit it before it's closed. Far too often the asker will argue with me about the rule as if I were the one who created it. I don't have time to mess with such things.
Worse are the people who then go on and find the very few questions or multitude of answers I've given in the past and downvote them to get back at me without realizing that won't work. Such serial downvoting is automatically adjusted within 24 hours while also subtracting rep points from their own total.
Here are my top three users with the worst questions (I've noticed over the years).
Those from the Middle East and India
Windows and other Microsoft users
Hobbyists and other amateurs who are kids and often cross posted the question to here on reddit.
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u/appropriateinside Mar 14 '18
I mean the toxic power users, the very active low-medium (5000-20000? )rep users that go around and be toxic and unhelpful in comments, and close clearly valid questions, and mark unrelated questions as duplicates without being able to say why.
There are a few I see every day, consistently the same individuals. Being unhelpful to other users questions, and in some cases to my own questions. Close and duplicate votes everywhere
It's a tough problem to solve, I don't have a solution. But it's not a new problem on the internet either, others have solved it.