What's your opinion on the StackOverflow website?
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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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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:
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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?
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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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?
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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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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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.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
I tend to use it in a read-only capacity.
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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
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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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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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?
read only
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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?
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?
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.
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― Christopher Hitchens
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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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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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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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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
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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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 ;)
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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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.
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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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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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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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?
Yep, all the time. I answer more questions than I seek answers, in fact. Don't understand what you mean by the second line. The post times are obvious so one can tell which answer was posted first, down-votes dont do anything like get you banned. They cost the voter (unlike here). People modify answers all the time. If the editors rep is too low, any change is first vetted. As you experienced, these edit suggestions are often rejected. Again, who posted and who edited the question is clear. Full edit history is available to those with sufficient privileges. Who cares about the points? Points, like personal weight measurements greatest value is in providing a trend over time. Individual ups and downs are essentially meaningless. I've had good days, I've had great days, I've had WTF!? days there too. Every single one has ended with a little more knowledge packed away into the grey matter. Stack Overflow and Code Project have quite different aims with rather different audiences. StackOverflow is much more business-like, i.e salutations not welcomed, thanks neither all combined with the horrors that essentially anonymous internet posting brings. CodeProject on the other hand is far more relaxed and convivial in nature and the expectation is that communications will use superlatives, be somewhat intimate, friendly and more human-friendly. Again, and like SO, all combined with the horrors that essentially anonymous internet posting brings. I wouldn't ask my mates what they think I should use to create a templating system to automatically process remit documents that are received as PDFs. Likewise, I wouldn't ask the mob at work if they've got any suggestions for reducing the cloudiness and off flavours produced when fermenting apple/pear juice in temperatures that fluctuate wildly, when the yeast prefers quite a cold environment. Different strokes for different folks.. I just try to treat SO like an office without a water-cooler and one that's full of people that are busy. I've been bitten once by someone having a bad day. It was rather cathartic, to be honest. Compared to some of the places I hang around, it's a kindergarten full of people with impeccable manners.
