• Stack Exchange

Overview

Stack Exchange has a rating of 1.7 stars from 23 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Stack Exchange ranks 361st among Science sites.

  • Service
    7
  • Value
    6
  • Shipping
    1
  • Returns
    1
  • Quality
    6
Positive reviews (last 12 months): 0%
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How would you rate Stack Exchange?
Top Positive Review

“Really help solving some problems”

Nadoy H.
9/17/19

Some problems about wordpress tips are suitably solved! Also other tech questions that have been found on google.

Top Critical Review

“A Thoroughly Broken Concept”

Tom V.
12/24/21

I first used Stack exchange some ten years ago. It wasn't perfect then, but it was far better than what it became later: a cesspool of egotism and petty people wanting to express their insignificant sense of pointless authority. Anyone reading this who wants to improve it? First of all, disallow negative scores. 0 serves the purpose of showing minimal effort or low quality, yet doesn't have the aggressive, amassing effect of -3 (or -4, or -5). Secondly, stop pretending everything is quantifiable. It isn't.

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Thumbnail of user yesm2
1 review
8 helpful votes
January 19th, 2019

I was trying to ask a question but it was stopped as it apparently was not clear, so I edited to make it as clear as possible but apparently that was not good enough. I contacted customer support and just got sent a generic email with a link to a post that was not helpful in any, way, shape or form. Would not recommend asking questions on this website unless you're willing to keep editing the question until someone can actually answer it

Thumbnail of user paulc635
9 reviews
325 helpful votes
August 27th, 2018

Not a good place for novices as the best answers are often downvoted whilst the worst rise to the top. If you have no knowledge of the subject you are asking about you will not notice this and end up being misinformed. However, if you are already familiar with a subject and just want further specific details, it can be useful as there are some good, knowledgeable contributors. Put bluntly, there are too many geeky sci-fi fans posting on hard science and engineering subjects they have zero experience of, who get angry when corrected on their ignorance and downvote their superiors. Poor moderation allows this behaviour to prosper.

Thumbnail of user susant493
1 review
6 helpful votes
July 4th, 2019

You will be argued with till the cows come home. There are so-called experts who dominate and babble away, with you kept at the bottom of the pile. There are plenty who come along and say."this is not the right category for your question, go somewhere else". Somewhere else will be very similar to where you are ie. Pickiness. There are also very nasty unhelpful commenters who will resist another opinion with even if you get the facts and show them. The concept is interesting but its confusing to have to open a new profile for each subject site. I have had in the past, a few worthwhile answers and points for my questions on Interpersonal Skills and Writing, but the overall experience is that you will seldom be rewarded for your efforts or create any meaningful dialogue with anyone. Also there are too many questions on Interpersonal Skills and related categories of the type " how can I avoid being jealous of my boyfriends' mother? How can I stop my boyfriend from looking at other girls? And. How can I get my girlfriend to look only at me" ie. Limited in depth.

Thumbnail of user toddh20
128 reviews
297 helpful votes
September 4th, 2017

What's acceptable about them is the amount of available topics they have. What I can't stand is that they make it too hard to create a new profile for the different types of forums they have such as math and workplace; therefore, you can't easily link to more websites/blogs of yours where your niche matches the forum service. I was able to overcome this problem with a Google search before but I can't do it now.

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