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Jan Küster 🔥

Happened to me often on software engineering space on stack exchange. These people are so annoying 😠

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Thomas Werner

I guess it's annoying by design. SE is not really a community space but more of a Wikipedia of questions and answers.

I also understand where that toxicity comes from. I've participated there for a while answering questions, and working through their moderation queue. Everything is just super pedantic there, and numbs your mind. You don't see people anymore, just content to criticize.
It really didn't fill me with happiness, so I stopped participating there a long while ago. Sometimes I still go there and try to to leave a helpful comment on new questions behind, shortly before they get closed.

On the flip side, when I google a problem, a Stackexchange post usually comes up first, and more often than not it contains a useful answer.