My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by _almosnow on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @12:07PM (#9063418)

Actually I did ask, strange you didn't notice that since it's right there in the link you posted.

And yeah, you are right, I used the word 'cunt' after they started behaving like that, I'm sorry if that scared you; I did it because I was really pissed off by all their bs. Have you ever felt annoyed some time in your life? Apparently not, lucky you.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by jusben1369 on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @12:45PM (#9063726)

Good Lord. The sense of entitlement it takes to use language like that and _then_ post it here and expect people will be supportive of your argument. This is a side topic but one I see often. I think it's very important that Europeans/UK/Aussie's realize the "c word" is one of the few swear words that doesn't travel well in the US. It's never used here and is extremely vulgar. So I would not use it on the web unless you are sure that your audience is primarily European and specifically the UK. (Grew up in Australia through University. Lived in Europe. Have lived now in the US a long time)

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by monksy on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @04:26PM (#9065136)

> It's never used here

It's not? I know of many men and women who use it. I've also heard some twisted logic how the use of it is "empowering" or some other nonsense.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by sergiotapia on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @06:39PM (#9065974)

The web is global, deal with it.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by jusben1369 on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @10:34PM (#9066840)

The Web is indeed global which is my point. The word in question has a very different meaning so best not to use it unless you're prepared for the fallout.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by sejje on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @12:24PM (#9063553)

apparently I pissed off one of the moderators (when asking him why is my question "off-topic")

No, apparently you pissed off all of the moderators when you called them all dick-sucking cunts.

You must be a really special dude to do that and then get your feelings hurt when you get downvoted for it.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by monksy on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @04:27PM (#9065147)

If that is all it takes to piss off a mod, they need to be demodded immediately. That really the weakest insult you can throw. [The insults are more annoying than offensive]

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by sejje on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @04:52PM (#9065326)

To be clear: your position is that SO needs moderators who don't downvote "cunt" because it's not offensive enough?

Anyway, doesn't matter--throwing insults, weak or strong, deserves downvotes. I don't understand why you're defending his right to be a complete asshat on a moderated forum. It's only just barely even related to the topic at hand, since he earned his downvotes.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by monksy on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @05:36PM (#9065608)

Really they don't even need to downvote at all, it'll get downvoted (as it probably did) by others. Asshats are going to exist regardless.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by kiruwa on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @11:02PM (#9066917)

Yeah... it really shouldn't have been downvoted.

Should have just been purged.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by JScarry on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @12:13PM (#9063462)

Maybe they don’t want people like you on the site. I wouldn’t.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by minitech on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @12:53PM (#9063779)

I’m happy to say that I downvoted you specifically for that! It’s what I always do whenever there’s a rude remark, regardless of question content. Glad to see you’re getting so many votes now, though.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by Guvante on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @12:23PM (#9063544)

The history of questions is why StackOverflow is so great. If it were like a normal forum with only time sensitive content it would have gone away like all other technical forums.

Your question is shared with all the future people who have the same problem, it isn't your soapbox to complain in. Your experience with SO is probably fairly minor, the moderators have each had to deal with at least a half dozen people breaking questions to suit their own benefits, it gets tiring quickly.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by Marcus316 on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @01:14PM (#9063948)

Please note, closed questions can also be removed from the site.

I have a single Gold Badge in the SO world. It was awarded for an answer that I gave which earned more than 100 up votes[1]. Sadly the question to which I responded has since been closed (for years now). When content that I worked hard to create suddenly disappears from the site because moderators deem it to be "not a good fit", you start to feel it's not worth your time ...

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/25/great-answer?userid=...

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by Guvante on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @03:19PM (#9064695)

Took me a minute to realize what you were talking about as I have mod powers and could see the post just fine (finally clicked everything was red).

They outgrew the initial laissez-faire model and needed to grow beyond it. However I heartily agree they didn't do the best at making that transition.

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Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow by teh_klev on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @01:35PM (#9064071)

At least they let you keep the badge :)

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