Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ...
by DanBC on Friday April 27, 2018 @07:35AM
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People with points have forgotton what the restrictions are like for people without points, which sometimes causes them to say stupid stuff.
"Just participate until you get the points" is hard to do if your lack of points prevents you from participating.
Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ...
by nottorp on Friday April 27, 2018 @07:22AM
(#16939875)
A throne of points implies you're spending a lot of time on SO, which begs the question: are you actually doing any useful work from which to draw the experience you're pretending to have when answering?
Very specifically calling out "they have a score higher than mine" as part of the description of the hostile behaviour. Isn't that a bit odd, wouldn't you expect them to only focus on the behaviour and the content, not the number next to the name?
Too many people are there sitting in a throne of points, and medals and rubbish, closing comments and questions and editing whatever they see fit.
Whereas the people without a throne of points who are closing questions and editing whatever they want, and commenting rudely, are .. not hostile? Is there an undercurrent of chip-on-shoulder points-resentment in the complaints in aggregate?