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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    This is why I don't contribute there - I had similar experiences when I first joined. Bunch of arrogant, cliquey people who I don't wish to be associated with. This place was open, friendly, and generally technically more competent. I am still here...:laugh:

    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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    glennPattonWork3
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    Bunch of arrogant, cliquey people who I don't wish to be associated with. This place was open, friendly

    And if you said what do you mean to answer you did not get nuked! :laugh: Plus they seem to have some value to their rep points(?)

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    • D david21114

      Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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      R Giskard Reventlov
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      david21742 wrote:

      Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website?

      No; CP is far superior.

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        This is why I don't contribute there - I had similar experiences when I first joined. Bunch of arrogant, cliquey people who I don't wish to be associated with. This place was open, friendly, and generally technically more competent. I am still here...:laugh:

        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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        david21114
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        Every time I look for an example their website pops up, so I look at the solutions. It cracks me up that they are unable to remove all the stupid irrelevant comments and discussions AND remove all the kludgy solutions that do get through their review process. Too often I see stuff that doesn't pass the sniff test. I have to scroll through too much spaghetti before, I see one acceptable approach.

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        • D david21114

          Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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          Lost User
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          Depends a lot on the tag. Common tags attract both shit questions and shit people. Tags like x86 aren't so bad. Useful for finding answers on with google though.

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          • D david21114

            Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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            Weylyn Cadwell
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            It's basically the same as any mainstream/popular website where people go to get questions. After sites get popular, you get the people who start to go there simply to get internet points, and don't really care if they're actually helping or not. From my experience, if I can't find a question that was previously answered, I'm not posting my question there. Depending on the question/language you ask in, you can get some really poor answers, but sometimes I've seen those extremely good ones.

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              This is why I don't contribute there - I had similar experiences when I first joined. Bunch of arrogant, cliquey people who I don't wish to be associated with. This place was open, friendly, and generally technically more competent. I am still here...:laugh:

              Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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              Alan Burkhart
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              :thumbsup:

              Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.

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              • D david21114

                Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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                Duncan Edwards Jones
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                It's better that ExpertsExchange, more alive than PlanetSourceCode but not as coherent as CodeProject. I tend to use it in a read-only capacity.

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                • D david21114

                  Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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                  Lost User
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                  I'm not mem of SO. But it seems to be not that bad. Why? I can't give you a statistics, but I think to remember very lot of answers here, which reffer to StackOverflow ;)

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                  • D Duncan Edwards Jones

                    It's better that ExpertsExchange, more alive than PlanetSourceCode but not as coherent as CodeProject. I tend to use it in a read-only capacity.

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                    Slacker007
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                    Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

                    I tend to use it in a read-only capacity.

                    :thumbsup:

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                    • L Lost User

                      A member of CP and only CP? Sorry, but I think it is very legal to be in more than one Forum and also the question of http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11253906 is/should be legal :doh: Bruno

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                      Slacker007
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                      I think you missed what I was trying to say. Could be a language barrier. What I was trying to say was I would rather be a member of Code Project than Stack Overflow....member. I go to Stack Overflow for answers occasionally, but I don't post there.

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                      • S Slacker007

                        I think you missed what I was trying to say. Could be a language barrier. What I was trying to say was I would rather be a member of Code Project than Stack Overflow....member. I go to Stack Overflow for answers occasionally, but I don't post there.

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                        Lost User
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                        Could be a language barrier.

                        Yep neraly more than 100% it is this. Sorry for that (my english is really bad and mostly based on Google translate) and thank you very much for your further Explanation and your Patience. :thumbsup: Bruno

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                        • D david21114

                          Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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                          Ron Anders
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                          read only

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                          • D david21114

                            Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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                            PIEBALDconsult
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                            The what?

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                              Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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                              GuyThiebaut
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                              I contributed once with a reasonable answer. My goodness did I regret that - the flamers set in and it became some playground bully fest of a who can be the biggest jerk. Needless to say I cancelled my account and now merely use it when google takes me there. There is a serious problem with the ethos of those running the site to as I constantly see good questions being asked and moderators shutting down the question as it has not been phrased correctly - seriously :wtf:! Its one saving grace is that there are a number of technically very helpful solutions to problems on the site.

                              “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

                              ― Christopher Hitchens

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                              • D david21114

                                Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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                                Jacquers
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                                I tried to thank someone for an answer, but couldn't because of never having posted before. Catch 22.

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                                • D david21114

                                  Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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                                  KarstenK
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                                  It is a more Q & A website where you can dig great answer snippets for difficult issues. But no articles and downloads for understanding and learnings.

                                  Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany

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                                  • D david21114

                                    Ever tried to contribute and respond to a question on the StackOverflow website? Every time I respond, I get some douche who tries to copy and edit my solution, take credit for my wisdom, and then have me banned from the site by down voting me. I recently had someone try to edit my solution and modify it as her own, only to have it denied by the last reviewer in the chain. Thankfully I didn't lose what little reputation points I had accumulated. What has been your experience?

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                                    ed welch
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                                    Well, if you are doing iOS development StackOverflow is effectively the official documentation. I don't really understand why they make so hard to post comments though.

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                                    • L Lost User

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                                      This place was *) open, friendly, and generally technically more competent.

                                      *) was ... past or not? Help a english language noob to understand this Thank you in advance. Bruno

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                                      Mark_Wallace
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                                      Griff meant that it was until he came here and ruined it. Can't move for bluddy sheep here, these days...

                                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                      • L Lost User

                                        I'm not mem of SO. But it seems to be not that bad. Why? I can't give you a statistics, but I think to remember very lot of answers here, which reffer to StackOverflow ;)

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                                        Mark_Wallace
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                                        0x01AA wrote:

                                        I think to remember very lot of answers here, which reffer to StackOverflow

                                        Sure, but "For God's sake, don't follow the cr@ppy advice they gave you on stack overview" counts as a favourable reference.

                                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                        • E ed welch

                                          Well, if you are doing iOS development StackOverflow is effectively the official documentation. I don't really understand why they make so hard to post comments though.

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                                          Mark_Wallace
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                                          Yes, who would have expected apple users to be snooty and immature?

                                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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