StackOverflow sucks
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Because every time I try to do anything I am told I do not have enough points. Have you watched the movie Catch 22?
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Because every time I try to do anything I am told I do not have enough points. Have you watched the movie Catch 22?
Agreed. I have the same problem. Programming for almost 30 years, but anytime I try to post anything, I don't have enough rep points.
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I heard a rant earlier about stackoverflow being pretty useless. Well I tried to improve a solution and it told me I needed 50 points. Well I have been a programmer now for too many years, and worked with C# for over 10 years. No wonder one does not get answers.
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It may have some weird rules around it, but whenever I search for how to do something, that site is always at the top of the list. :^)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
RyanDev wrote:
but whenever I search for how to do something, that site is always at the top of the list.
That's because you keep clicking on them. Most of the search engines remember which sites you clicked on and rank those sites higher for your next search. I've noticed lately that SO has been slipping down my search results page and MDN has been creeping up the rankings, and I've been asking questions about old-school javascript, so it's not like the info on one site or the other is changing in any significant way (Initializing an array in JS hasn't changed much for the past 147 years). It's because I'm purposely avoiding SO and favoring MDN these days for my JS needs.
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RyanDev wrote:
but whenever I search for how to do something, that site is always at the top of the list.
That's because you keep clicking on them. Most of the search engines remember which sites you clicked on and rank those sites higher for your next search. I've noticed lately that SO has been slipping down my search results page and MDN has been creeping up the rankings, and I've been asking questions about old-school javascript, so it's not like the info on one site or the other is changing in any significant way (Initializing an array in JS hasn't changed much for the past 147 years). It's because I'm purposely avoiding SO and favoring MDN these days for my JS needs.
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I heard a rant earlier about stackoverflow being pretty useless. Well I tried to improve a solution and it told me I needed 50 points. Well I have been a programmer now for too many years, and worked with C# for over 10 years. No wonder one does not get answers.
That's really the problem with any system where reputation points are used to dictate what you can or cannot do in a public forum. Their goal is to get you to post regularly and they simply don't give a damn if you have decades worth of experience dealing with something being asked--they only care if you start contributing regularly. Only then do you become valuable to them. In the end, one-off answers are discouraged because of it and I'm sure SO is poorer because of it.
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I heard a rant earlier about stackoverflow being pretty useless. Well I tried to improve a solution and it told me I needed 50 points. Well I have been a programmer now for too many years, and worked with C# for over 10 years. No wonder one does not get answers.
Then there are the excellent answers flagged as "unproductive". Or the excellent questions which result in a massive argument, no points of which come close to answering the question one way or another. (Just ran across one of those--everyone was arguing about how the person phrased the question, even though it was blindingly oblivious what was being asked. The annoying part is that I needed the actual answer.)
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RyanDev wrote:
but whenever I search for how to do something, that site is always at the top of the list.
That's because you keep clicking on them. Most of the search engines remember which sites you clicked on and rank those sites higher for your next search. I've noticed lately that SO has been slipping down my search results page and MDN has been creeping up the rankings, and I've been asking questions about old-school javascript, so it's not like the info on one site or the other is changing in any significant way (Initializing an array in JS hasn't changed much for the past 147 years). It's because I'm purposely avoiding SO and favoring MDN these days for my JS needs.
Vark111 wrote:
MDN
Wha dat?
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Yes I know, Just added different information. I love that can post answer but not a comment. Seems rather stupid.
Clifford Nelson wrote:
Seems rather stupid.
Indeed it does.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Vark111 wrote:
MDN
Wha dat?
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It may have some weird rules around it, but whenever I search for how to do something, that site is always at the top of the list. :^)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Then there are the excellent answers flagged as "unproductive". Or the excellent questions which result in a massive argument, no points of which come close to answering the question one way or another. (Just ran across one of those--everyone was arguing about how the person phrased the question, even though it was blindingly oblivious what was being asked. The annoying part is that I needed the actual answer.)
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Thanks.
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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There is a simple way to prevent that. You can add "-site:stackoverflow.com" to your search terms and any results from that site will not be displayed.
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Because every time I try to do anything I am told I do not have enough points. Have you watched the movie Catch 22?
Clifford Nelson wrote:
Have you watched the movie Catch 22?
No, but I've read the book.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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Clifford Nelson wrote:
Have you watched the movie Catch 22?
No, but I've read the book.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
That's probably much better.
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That is because people get points for flagging things. So they will do almost anything to get their internet points!
Hogan
My gosh! I have been "dismembered" (I guess that's the wrong word for it :) ) twice from SO because my questions were too vague. I agree that they might have been not entirely clear, but then again: Why on Earth would I post questions if I knew exactly what I was looking for? Most of such times, it would be my obligation to first look for answers using Google searches or so. Working as a lecturer in programming (thus probably not asking really off-topic questions) I felt that there must be nicer forums, and that's why I joined CodeProject a few years ago. So: thanks for your kindness, whoever who is reading this. :) A few weeks ago I re-joined SO as I wanted to get in touch with a poster and send him a message. Then I realized that one cannot send private messages on SO. ...so I ended up looking him up on Google and sent an email to his workplace instead. (Of course, many people have positive experiences from SO - these are just my own impressions.)