How's the Stack Overflow strike going?

Re:How's the Stack Overflow strike going? by dvt on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:54AM (#36253827)

I've had enough reputation to see the moderation queue for years now. Imo, the site is anything but welcoming, as it shuts down newbie questions all the time with zero guidance.

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Re:How's the Stack Overflow strike going? by emodendroket on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:55AM (#36253841)

In spite of this it seems like most of the activity is for what I'd consider very low-value questions.

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Re:How's the Stack Overflow strike going? by bombolo on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:02AM (#36253886)

Already when I was a student working on my thesis, my issues were too advanced to ask questions on SO. I asked but I got no replies.

At the time I would answer to others. Now I don't really bother. I often see a wrong answer being marked as correct, because it came before an actually good answer.

For me SO now is at most a website where to copy boilerplate stuff like "how to create a unix server socket".

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Re:How's the Stack Overflow strike going? by scatters on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:54AM (#36254260)

Welcoming and newbie-friendly are not the same thing.

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Re:How's the Stack Overflow strike going? by Pinegulf on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:36AM (#36254563)

QFT. There should be mandatory 'why this question was closed' in cases there was and (misinformed) effort. Currently it's -10 closed, no comments.

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Re:How's the Stack Overflow strike going? by emodendroket on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:37AM (#36257633)

There is?

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