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Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

I’ve been contributing on SO for a decade and comments like this drive me nuts.

It was a free self moderating tool and people couldn’t even ask question properly for people to do the work for them for free. The entitlement is astonishing and to have the gal to call SO toxic just shows how undeserving some people are of any assistance.

Yes use the search bar and yes lock the thread if people can’t spend 5 minutes to form their question there is no saving of these fools. Period.

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crestwave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
SO did go overboard at times; I’ve seen quite a few instances where posts were locked for being “duplicates” of completely unrelated problems. Oftentimes they were accompanied with unnecessarily rude messages as well.

But yes, the unwillingness of some (most?) people to use the search function baffles me. They’d prefer to write a narrative essay in SO for their FizzBuzz assignment and argue with mods rather than type a few keywords to instantly get the solution.

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Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m not a programmer (last time I seriously dabbled into coding was building a website for an A Level Computing project) and I have never personally posted on StackOverflow. In fact, the only StackExchange site I’ve ever been part of was EpicAdvice, a short-lived offshoot that was for World of Warcraft specific questions. But I do have a sibling with a computer science and software engineering background which is how I became aware of the site in the first place.

This isn’t my personal criticism of the site, it’s me echoing the sentiment of the many who have complained about the community across the web.

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