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Re:I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not dec... by 2-4-Flinching on Monday September 26, 2016 @08:50AM (#12581337)
Yea, I asked an advanced Java question and got downvoted -20 with no answers. It was downvoted because it was something you actually had to have understanding of Java and the API. That has been my experience with stackoverflow. Ask a simple question get love. Ask something advance get downvoted and sometimes trolled. So sad people can't just move on if they don't know and answer and have to downvote to make them feel better.
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Re:I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not dec... by pavlik_enemy on Monday September 26, 2016 @10:12AM (#12581934)
Same thing happened when I wanted to know how to convert private method to public in Ruby. Yeah, that's not what people usually do (and not what they should do) but I really needed to know. The reason was laughable, "unclear question" even though it was perfectly clear what were my intentions.
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