StackOverflow

Some of the people is just commenting, not solving the problem. The moderator also is bias, If you are newbie I think you have no place to be here.

The majority of coders who have jobs, take coding seriously just want an open forum. That ISN'T StackOverFlow.

It's a fascist communist dictatorship. You ACTUALLY have to earn 50 points before you can post answers to other peoples questions!

God willing, you want to ask a question to "Earn Points"; the "moderators" will delete your well thought out questions because they aren't formatted within the strict guidelines dictated by the socialist overlord's. Rather than making it possible to earn points they just frustrate you to no end.

It's total BULL $#*! and I don't say that lightly. I worked very hard on my posts and then didn't use the service for a few years and lost points.

God forbid that you should express a point of view (complain about it). I canceled my account and I recommend EVERYONE do the same! Send these NAZI's a message!

The plantation is closed!

When, individuals in a social community are motivated to help other people you shouldn't stand in their way. When you combine personal freedom with a powerful and intelligent education, individuals can recognize their own responsibilities and effectively carry them out.

There are plenty of services that do that much better. In a free online community, vicious lawbreakers can be punished without severely impacting everyone else. Some people will be successful and others will not, and that can't be changed under any circumstances.

If people need help from society then that responsibility falls on the individuals through the channels the people themselves create, and moderate.

I contributed to one of the Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) communities, mostly by answering questions and commenting frequently. My account was suspended immediately after I challenged someone (high in the ranks) with a provocative question. I asked why I was suspended and was not given an answer. I asked a second time, still no answer. I finally contacted their main office, asking what the policy was because I was never given a warning. A community member (someone that posts regularly and is friendly toward the moderator that banned me) wrote me back to that my suspension was applied correctly, that normally they warn people but they didn't warn me. Their findings were subjective.

I like the Q & A format of the site, I like that it moves fast. I don't like the retaliation and bullying that occurs as a result of the ability to up and down vote and I don't like the way the moderators play into the bullying. I don't like that most questions are answered with opinions even though the site says it prides itself on being opinion-free. I don't like that most of the questions are answered poorly.

This site is ridiculous, and it's created to be so. Firstly I started noticing some of the answers that I knew were totally wrong, or at least very inefficient. So, I tried to help by up-voting, down-voting, and commenting correct answers. But I was stymied by a system that requires you to have a "reputation" before you can do anything. But, in order to get a reputation, you have to do stuff. As I went around this site, looking for ways to help and contribute and increase my "reputation" score I found that you can't even down-vote an incorrect answer because I didn't have enough. And honestly, most of the solutions I've seen upvoted around there are asinine. It's *clear* they should start allowing real experts who might not have used the site very much (because we figure everything out on our own) to contribute instead of these childish commentors, mainly because they've just used the site more. I just tried to downvote two blatantly incorrect answers and was stymied. I won't use this site, and I won't let my employees either.

If you just want answers, StackOverflow can be brilliant. Go on and browse until your heart is content.

However, if you want to be part of the community, get your battle gear on because this place is incredibly nasty! The trolls on here are not like those on Facebook or other social media platforms (and whether SO like it or not, they have enabled the site to become a glorified social media site for techy trolls). What seems to be a sizable portion of Users are really horrible, angry people, who are set off by the most trivial of things. They are akin to that a'hole in the bar who starts squaring up to you with "are you looking at me?!". This is SatckOverflow!

However, as with all a'holes they take their lead from somewhere, and that lead is from SO themselves. Throughout the site you can see high levels of obnoxiousness and arrogance. All in all one could strongly argue that the problem with SO is that the people who own and operate it are total a'holes themselves.

You don't even need to take my word for it, here's an article from SO themselves. The fact that it's over two years old and obviously had no impact says all you need to know about StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/

So many unecessary rules, not beginner friendly, never received useful advice. Don't recommend this website.

I hardly ever do this, but today StackOverflow really just made me so mad. I used to enjoy getting helpful answers to questions, but I don't know when the so called "tech geniuses" decided to use the site and ended up making it so snobby. Here is how to use the site:

USE BIG FANCY WORDS THIS WAY PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE ACTUALLY A CODER.

MAKE SURE YOU ASK QUESTIONS THEY DEEM TO BE GOOD.

LASTLY, MAKE SURE YOU FIND OUT HOW MUCH THEY WANT POSTED.
Some will say the minimum, while others say post everything.

Seriously, they told me I can't "contribute" (in other words ask questions, which is what the site was meant for), because my previous questions apparently weren't good enough. Basically they just insulted my intelligence as someone who is in school learning how to code. HELLO! I am not going to know everything. That's what I was there for.

Also, about 99% of the "help" you will get, is people fixing your grammar and spelling. Didn't know that the site was for English teachers to go in and fix that, instead of REAL coders coming in and helping you with a problem. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A COMMUNITY AS CODERS AND THIS SITE DOESN'T REFLECT THAT!

I am a senior lead developer, many years of developing in different languages and platform. I am also part time teacher in computer science and development.
Till a few years ago I loved this website. People were helpful, friendly, and respectful. Now it became the Facebook of programming. I posted a few posts about Python and WordPress. Two things I don't really know and want to learn. The posts are simple, I am not demanding (like some, more liked, questions are), within the rules of this 'website'. Not even 5 minutes later the posts are removed. Reasons; not inside the rules of stack overflow and it is not a programming question. How can a question about 'Running a query from MySql in PHP gives error' (with all explanations, errors and codes) not be a programming question?

Other example; I am building this application for my company. It holds sensitive information and the code-style and functions/methods cannot be placed outside the company. I had a problem and no-one in the company (a 2600+ employee-company) could help me out. So I placed a question, with sufficient information and code examples, so called snippets (which you also get from answers from these other 'developers' on stackoverflow), and I get 30 replies. I was happy, but 29 of the replies was about the fact the examples aren't sufficient and people need to see the whole codebase. The example code I gave works fine and showed my problems.

I removed my account and I am trying to warn others. Google works way better and if you have questions and want answers of REAL developers and engineers; go to Reddit. I have way more success there.

StackOverflow is history if it was up to me. The moderators think they are God/Allah, or whatever god you believe in.