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The humans of StackOverflow have been pricks for so long. If they fixed that problem years ago they would have been in a great position with the advent of AI. They could’ve marketed themselves as a site for humans. But no, fuckfacepoweruser found an answer to a different question he believes answers your question so marked your question as a duplicate and fuckfacerubberstamper voted to close it in the queue without critically thinking about it.

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theolodis@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I used to moderate and answer questions on SO, but stopped because at some point you see the 500th question about how to use some javascript function.

Of course I flagged them all as duplicate and linked them to an extensive answer about the specific function, explaining all aspects and edge cases, because I don’t think there need to be 500 similatlr answers (who’s going to maintain them?)

But yeah, sorry that I didn’t fix YOUR code sample, and you had to actually do your homework by yourself.

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- JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  My questions weren’t homework problems with 500 duplicates. Maybe that type of shit being the most common in the vote to close queue is why fuckfacerubberstamper can’t be bothered to actually think about what they’re closing as dupes.
  
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ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
If the alternative is the cesspit that is Yahoo Answers and Quora, I’ll take the heavy-handed moderation of StackOverflow.

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- JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You don’t think there’s any middle ground between the two? None whatsoever?
  
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  - ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Of course there’s a middle ground, that’s much closer in my ideal world to StackOverflow than it is to Yahoo Answers or Quora.
    
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    JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Nobody here is suggesting you to use Yahoo Answers.
    
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  - elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Well, no. If there were a middle ground, we’d all be using it.
    
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    JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Like Lemmy? The site we’re all using?
    
    But no my point wasn’t about a specific site, it’s about the moderation approach. Do you really think there’s no middle ground in approach to moderation between Yahoo Answers and StackOverflow?
    
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  - ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If Stack Overflow is a 3/10 then Quora is a 1/10 and Yahoo Answers is -5/10.
    
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