The Fall of Stack Overflow

Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by throwaway2037 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:23AM (#36858659)

    the XY problem-problem

I never saw this term before, but it is perfect. So many times I have experienced it when asking questions in mature tech domains. It is so frustrating. Frequently, my question is asked poorly from the view of an expert, so they sweep it aside as not a real problem. Only after getting help (from comments) to provide more info or improve the writing, does the expert suddenly agree it is an issue.

This is also why I no longer waste my time raising bug tickets for open source projects. You just get shouted down and feel terrible about yourself. I raised many "WONTFIX" bugs in my career against open source projects. What a waste of my time and a harm to my self esteem.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by paradite on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:30AM (#36859131)

I was active on SO years ago and my answers and questions typically are either upvoted to large number, or downvoted to a large number despite my best attempt at explaining the context.

So I do know this problem (problem-problem) very well and I've since stopped asking or answering on SO.

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