Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow

Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by jerrya on Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:20AM (#6063056)

It's a very frustrating site. I take the time to carefully write up a question, and many things can happen to that.

  * it doesn't get answered
  * it gets closed pretty quickly (and usually in an offputting insulting manner)
  * it gets changed(!) and a question I didn't ask gets answered

I suspect there's a lot of frustrated wikipedians taking it out on Stack Exchange.

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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by JeremyCa on Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:42AM (#6063545)

I have had similar experiences.

Generally speaking if I'm going to take the time to write a question on SO it's because I can not find the answer already, only to have that question not answered, or worse edited beyond the questions original intent.

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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by Graham24 on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:08AM (#6063691)

Yeah, I've asked questions and found within 5 mins people are rushing in to change the wording and tags and so on. Pity they do not spend more time finding answers.

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