Yes, and as jwp says, it's this elitist group of moderators who personally attack people.
While SO has an incredible amount of info and has saved my ass numerous times, that doesn't make it a nice place to be, especially with downvoting and commenting. But, they can definitely do better and it's not beyond redemption.
Yes. Specialy the Authority those Moderators has, they can Brutally insults you with words but if you reply back they just delete your comment I mean even Facebook or youtube can filter out words like "You have no life, programming ain't for you, can't even use the english language prroperly and lastly stop asking stupid questions". It was such a shocked to be called names and stuff out of nowhere from just asking a legitimate question. Specially this guy: stackoverflow.com/users/1014587/ma...
He even banned my account for taking my stand on his rude behavior to the point I didn't even Screenshot the rudeness and all the degatory terms he have used.
It was a life mission for me to find this guy I don't care about jail but I am commiting it if ever I find this man.
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I mean in the end any place on the internet can be a toxic place. Toxicity is purely relative. What one person thinks is toxic, I might not say that.
I myself donβt think it is. I understand others have a different view about that because they have had a different experience. My experience has always been a pretty good one. I still have a question that I asked like 7 years ago still getting positive votes. I love that. I love knowing that what I thought was a stupid question at the time is still helping people out to this day.
Does Stackoverflow have people there that can create a toxic environment? Sure, no doubt. But so does every place on the internet. Dev.to even has people that I think creates a toxic environment. That doesnβt mean itβs a toxic environment. Itβs just how the internet, and quite frankly the world works. We are all different people and have different views and opinions on how things should be.
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I am a 9 year S.O. veteran in the top 6% pointwise. The site is toxic because of the negative vote ability.
In the early days any question properly asked was met with a ton of help. I felt more than compelled to give back, spending countless hours finding answers for other people because I benefited from learning new stuff.
But then, an elitist group of moderators began personally attacking people in their replies as well as down votes.
So much so, for me, I never contribute any longer. I just look up answers now and forget it as a training platform.
This works well for me, as I now use other means for learning and use S.O. only for clarification or looking up legacy work.
S.O. died about 10 years ago and became a corporate entity since then.
Probably the comment that killed SO for me was a comment by a moderator attacking someone over their views on the GPL, and essentially trying to boycott them.
yea.
I often see random people attacking newbies.
It's not the case of stack overflow only, I see this in other forums as well.
A group of people think that they are the GOAT and attack newbies just because their skills are entry level
It is an extremely toxic place. For example, recently, I had some doubts because two of my questions were attacked with negative votes. In both cases, I provided proper examples, testable code, a real case, and I got a bunch of negative votes, one of them I was even forced to delete it and has an NPM package. The other you can check it here: stackoverflow.com/questions/683905...
Next, when I asked for support, I got -23 negative votes when I wanted to understad my mistakes and get some feedback to prevent future errors from my side: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4...
The only answer was really poor (that even prevents me to delete it, I think it was intentional) since one was a partial answer and the other was technically, I don't know.
I did it because I was sure I would be attacked with several -1s without any answer and several negative comments to bring testable code or something like that when there is no documentation about this topic.
From my side, I come to StackOverflow only when I need something that I couldn't find anything. However, I know that is an extremely toxic place where you must be very carefull. Sadly, you have a few places where to go, and you must be aware that you're going to be attacked sooner or later without getting an answer, and if you ask for support, you will most likely be the devil in the story and suffer what happened to me or maybe you will be the lucky one like the other case where he got nice replies and +1 votes.
You should send a link to this thread to "the brass" at SO... finally a thread, and unanimous no less, of opinions all saying SO is not toxic.
Halla-(beep)-juah!
I'd opine my own 2 cents about the toxicity of SO, but this thread has turned so much BS that it will just drown and vanish.
There's a good reason why SO is considered toxic by almost all its users, bar the ones on this thread, and that the first bazillion pages on Google search about SO's toxicity are to pages showing, with actual proof, why it is.
And boy, oh boy, is it.
Best of luck to the people on this thread, and I hope you never have a chance to find out just how crappy SO is.
It'll rock your world when you do.
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Yes, and as jwp says, it's this elitist group of moderators who personally attack people.
While SO has an incredible amount of info and has saved my ass numerous times, that doesn't make it a nice place to be, especially with downvoting and commenting. But, they can definitely do better and it's not beyond redemption.
Yes. Specialy the Authority those Moderators has, they can Brutally insults you with words but if you reply back they just delete your comment I mean even Facebook or youtube can filter out words like "You have no life, programming ain't for you, can't even use the english language prroperly and lastly stop asking stupid questions". It was such a shocked to be called names and stuff out of nowhere from just asking a legitimate question. Specially this guy:
stackoverflow.com/users/1014587/ma...
He even banned my account for taking my stand on his rude behavior to the point I didn't even Screenshot the rudeness and all the degatory terms he have used.
It was a life mission for me to find this guy I don't care about jail but I am commiting it if ever I find this man.
I can't see how a tool can be toxic. A tool is not useful (or useless) by itself, it depends on humans.
So if there's a problem, it's humans.
Yes. It's nerds at their worst.
It include outdated solutions and buggy code , thatβs why Itβs toxic . Vashikaran Specialist in Salem
I mean in the end any place on the internet can be a toxic place. Toxicity is purely relative. What one person thinks is toxic, I might not say that.
I myself donβt think it is. I understand others have a different view about that because they have had a different experience. My experience has always been a pretty good one. I still have a question that I asked like 7 years ago still getting positive votes. I love that. I love knowing that what I thought was a stupid question at the time is still helping people out to this day.
Does Stackoverflow have people there that can create a toxic environment? Sure, no doubt. But so does every place on the internet. Dev.to even has people that I think creates a toxic environment. That doesnβt mean itβs a toxic environment. Itβs just how the internet, and quite frankly the world works. We are all different people and have different views and opinions on how things should be.
Creating a better world is NJOKER's top priority: delivering high-quality, entertaining blogs to millions of people; creating content that is more compassionate to those who consume it; and educating and encouraging our audience to live a more fulfilling life. NJOKER
I am a 9 year S.O. veteran in the top 6% pointwise. The site is toxic because of the negative vote ability.
In the early days any question properly asked was met with a ton of help. I felt more than compelled to give back, spending countless hours finding answers for other people because I benefited from learning new stuff.
But then, an elitist group of moderators began personally attacking people in their replies as well as down votes.
So much so, for me, I never contribute any longer. I just look up answers now and forget it as a training platform.
This works well for me, as I now use other means for learning and use S.O. only for clarification or looking up legacy work.
S.O. died about 10 years ago and became a corporate entity since then.
That's why I'm here at Dev.To.
Probably the comment that killed SO for me was a comment by a moderator attacking someone over their views on the GPL, and essentially trying to boycott them.
the f*ck?
yea.
I often see random people attacking newbies.
It's not the case of stack overflow only, I see this in other forums as well.
A group of people think that they are the GOAT and attack newbies just because their skills are entry level
It is an extremely toxic place. For example, recently, I had some doubts because two of my questions were attacked with negative votes. In both cases, I provided proper examples, testable code, a real case, and I got a bunch of negative votes, one of them I was even forced to delete it and has an NPM package. The other you can check it here:
stackoverflow.com/questions/683905...
Next, when I asked for support, I got -23 negative votes when I wanted to understad my mistakes and get some feedback to prevent future errors from my side:
meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4...
The only answer was really poor (that even prevents me to delete it, I think it was intentional) since one was a partial answer and the other was technically, I don't know.
The funny part is that a couple of weeks later, someone asked a similar question:
meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4...
And that question got 24+ votes. I felt quite offended.
Furthermore, recently, I was forced to bring another question to a Samsung Forum:
forum.developer.samsung.com/t/how-...
I did it because I was sure I would be attacked with several -1s without any answer and several negative comments to bring testable code or something like that when there is no documentation about this topic.
From my side, I come to StackOverflow only when I need something that I couldn't find anything. However, I know that is an extremely toxic place where you must be very carefull. Sadly, you have a few places where to go, and you must be aware that you're going to be attacked sooner or later without getting an answer, and if you ask for support, you will most likely be the devil in the story and suffer what happened to me or maybe you will be the lucky one like the other case where he got nice replies and +1 votes.
You should send a link to this thread to "the brass" at SO... finally a thread, and unanimous no less, of opinions all saying SO is not toxic.
Halla-(beep)-juah!
I'd opine my own 2 cents about the toxicity of SO, but this thread has turned so much BS that it will just drown and vanish.
There's a good reason why SO is considered toxic by almost all its users, bar the ones on this thread, and that the first bazillion pages on Google search about SO's toxicity are to pages showing, with actual proof, why it is.
And boy, oh boy, is it.
Best of luck to the people on this thread, and I hope you never have a chance to find out just how crappy SO is.
It'll rock your world when you do.