Comment on The Fall of Stack Overflow
danhab99@programming.dev 1 year ago
IDK what shitoverflow gets out of being so fucking toxic. I asked one dumb question and I’m basically banned from posting on the website.
It feels like they’re trying to be a sort of “wikipedia” of every programming problem and solution. The problem is that eventually everything will be posted, and everyone will be banned from the website.
It feels like they’re trying to be a sort of “wikipedia” of every programming problem and solution.
It looks to me that they could effectively address that by improving their search combined with question grooming, and not shutting down posters.
I mean, what’s a naive poster asking dumb questions other than a new user wanting to contribute? Is this the people they want to insult away?
The problem is that eventually everything will be posted, and everyone will be banned from the website.
I don’t think they see that as a problem, that’s the goal
It feels like they’re trying to be a sort of “wikipedia” of every programming problem and solution.
That is exactly what stackoverflow is supposed to be. It’s not there to answer your question about “why is my IF statement not working”, it’s there to be a resource for all developper. How is a question about your specific problem gonna helps anyone ? If you haven’t, take the time to read the “how to ask” section, it describes what kind of questions are acceptable and what kind are not.
There is, obviously, some proper questions that should not have been deleted, but most of them are not suited for the site, as they don’t bring anything to other developers.
You were able to post on there at all? Don’t they have extremely high barriers to entry for even question comments?
Not only post, but I have a question that still feeds me residuals even now.
I got a nastygram because I was editing the questions to follow a proper style and form (AP) and some people got upset that my comments were more “run on sentence” and “emails and helps both sound wrong as nouns for the same reason” instead of something like “there-there, Timmy”.
So I said “you can have free editing, or the next guy can be a people person instead.” And they agreed.
So I’m read-only there now too. :-D
bh11235@infosec.pub 1 year ago
You lack vision, but I see a place where people get blocked and their questions opened then immediately closed as duplicates. Open and closed, open and closed all day, all night. Soon, where the internet once stood will be a string of condescending experts, admonitions that “you shouldn’t do that, do Y instead”, pleas for information closed as off-topic. Passive aggression, spiteful ego contests and wonderful, wonderful karma meters reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it’ll be beautiful.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That’s one of my favorites: ignore the problem, only pick on the scope we can’t change.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 year ago
You have to build Rust from source, then install the dependencies with cargo, then update your node.js because it uses npm to manage it's configurations. This worked for me on Arch, which is what I use btw.
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 year ago
As someone who actually did out of interest at one point, you’d be surprised how easy this actually is to do.
x.pyis a godsend.For the rest of your comment, it was immediately invalidated when you said you use Arch. The reality is that more people use Ubuntu, so you should be using Ubuntu too. Don’t use
apt? Figure it out yourself :P