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Discussion on: How do you deal with Q&A web platform's trolls? (e. g., Stack Overflow, Quora, etc.)

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Almenon

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3...

Still pretty bitter that my suggestion got downvoted. It makes me a bit angry just thinking about it. I'm fully aware that the idea may not be realistic, but is it really worthy of such hate that it needs downvotes? Running unwanted commands is not a frivolous concern and I did research before I posted the question.

But I'm taking it too personally, of course. I'm assuming people who downvoted it just did it because they thought the solution would be unrealistic or they didn't see it as a real issue, not because they hated the idea.

How did I react? I posted one comment in response, but after that I simply declined to comment further. I fled the conversation, basically.

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Laís Carvalho

I completely understand the feeling with the downvoting. To be honest, I struggled a bit to understand your question but it is always hard to post questions on certain subjects.
The guidance of 'make your issue reproducible' is a good one but sometimes it does not apply.
My wonder of the emotional toll on asking questions publicly and being shamed for doing it seems to be supported here as well.

Thank you for sharing your experience and don't let it get to you! Keep up with the good work ;)