Re:Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late?
by RivieraKid on Saturday April 26, 2014 @07:45AM
(#7651090)
> These days, if I ask a question it's because I've spent a good amount of time on it and haven't been able to resolve it myself.
Same for me. Here's how my questions end up:
- With an actual, good answer. I'd say this happens for about half of the questions.
- The answer confirms that what I'm trying to do is not possible.
- I get stupid but confident answers by people who apparently didn't read the whole question.
- No answer or vague unhelpful answers.
- The question is put on hold, usually because it's too broad or not constructive. It's a shame that there's no place to discuss these type of questions with the SO community, I hink there's a lot of potential there.
Re:Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late?
by collyw on Saturday April 26, 2014 @10:51AM
(#7651535)
Yeah, I remember a post here a while ago, someone was going to open a site "not constructive" with these types of discussions as the goal. Unfortunately it never seemed to materialise...
Same for me. Here's how my questions end up:
- With an actual, good answer. I'd say this happens for about half of the questions.
- The answer confirms that what I'm trying to do is not possible.
- I get stupid but confident answers by people who apparently didn't read the whole question.
- No answer or vague unhelpful answers.
- The question is put on hold, usually because it's too broad or not constructive. It's a shame that there's no place to discuss these type of questions with the SO community, I hink there's a lot of potential there.