Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change

Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by slavik81 on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:10PM (#16945749)

I've never had a question closed, but do have to agree with JPGalt that there is a problem. A lot of power is vested in high-rep users who got to high rep by making lots of snap judgments. In the Qt tag, I frequently encountered high rep C++ developers guessing at answers. They knew the language, but were unfamiliar with the library and would make guesses at how things work. Then other C++ developers browsing the front page would upvote their answer because it sounded right (even if it was completely incorrect).

It's mildly annoying when wrong answers get voted up, but it's even more annoying when moderation tools are used that way. This new user got screwed over by high-ranking close voters who didn't actually read the question: https://stackoverflow.com/q/49847677/331041

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Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by tedmiston on Saturday April 28, 2018 @11:56AM (#16948214)

That's an interesting point. I mostly answer in Python, HTML, and CSS, and haven't seen this happen over there.

It reminds me of when SO added the feature to make front-end code snippets in answers runnable. Perhaps an evolution of that is to provide the equivalent for backend code. Do you think this would solve the voting problem you described?

To the linked question - Do you know if it's possible to undo a "mark as dupe"?

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Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by slavik81 on Saturday April 28, 2018 @06:40PM (#16949815)

It is possible to reopen, but it requires 5 voters with >3k rep to do so, or one voter with a gold badge for the tag.

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