Re:Stack Overflow Culture
by always_good on Sunday March 18, 2018 @12:37PM
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Also... the question is answered regardless. Not very damning. Boo hoo, the OP has an answered question but their question is -2? I think people on HN care way too much about points.
Yeah, one of SO's problems is people using its question system to cache-hit other people's brains instead of having to spend 2 seconds on google.
I can't really agree with any posts here that think the solution is to tolerate it with poor question quality and duplicates. But good luck doing that in a way that doesn't grate on anyone.
The downvote button is marked "shows no research effort".
Where's the "I looked at this manual and that tutorial and this debugger and tried these things"? Nowhere, which makes it feel like "I put no effort in stackoverflow do it for me".
The downvote button is an awful way to do what it purports to do. In practise it's percieved as more of an "oh fuck off" button.
It's a single mouse click by a single person (or maybe a bot), but it carries so much weight.