I stopped because every time I'd ask a question someone would come by and complain about something and vote to close the question. Then the question never gets answered. I think the site is dying because of AI. I used Deepseek to answer my last few questions with great success. I think I'll just use that from now on.
The person wouldn't really read the entire post but just wave their hands and ask for this and that saying I haven't provided enough information. "This" and "that" wasn't needed to answer my question but I would provide this information anyway and then the person never comes back. This happened more often than not.
> Can you point to an example? Please? I'm serious.
> The person wouldn't really read the entire post but just wave their hands and ask for this and that saying I haven't provided enough information. "This" and "that" wasn't needed to answer my question but I would provide this information anyway and then the person never comes back. This happened more often than not.
You didn't read my post, did you? :)
(Just being cheeky, I'm really curious to see an example!)
I just opened up closed SO questions (after not having used the site for almost half a decade) and most of them still seem pretty terrible.
I'm sorry, I'm not going to dig up closed questions from years ago if it is even possible. I'm not trying to supplant other people's experiences. I'm just relating my own. If your experience has been different then you are free to share instead of auditing mine.
As a bonus, here's my only experience asking a question on SO. It was unsatisfactory in the end (as there was no solution at the time), but I tried to be helpful as an asker and received a decent answer:
Because this is my only experience asking a question I was asking about specific examples where you felt the people on the site behaved badly. It was not to audit anyone but to improve (as I've answered a bunch of questions myself). :)
I stopped using it a few years ago because its usefulness and reliability had declined too much. I've never posted a question myself, though. Questioners seemed to be treated poorly often enough that it didn't seem worth the hassle.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 28.3 ms ] threadCan you point to an example? Please? I'm serious.
I always read this sentiment, but at least in the `r` tag that I was frequenting, most closed question were really terrible.
> The person wouldn't really read the entire post but just wave their hands and ask for this and that saying I haven't provided enough information. "This" and "that" wasn't needed to answer my question but I would provide this information anyway and then the person never comes back. This happened more often than not.
You didn't read my post, did you? :)
(Just being cheeky, I'm really curious to see an example!)
I just opened up closed SO questions (after not having used the site for almost half a decade) and most of them still seem pretty terrible.
Newest closed questions from [r]¹:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79547868/order-dataframe... — Imho correctly labeled as a duplicate, and reads like a trauma dump. Definitely not a minimal reproducible example (MRE)².
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79547674/logistical-regr... — Not a programming question
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79547552/does-glmmtmb-au... — no MRE
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79546796/how-to-adjust-t... — unclear & contradicts itself
As a bonus, here's my only experience asking a question on SO. It was unsatisfactory in the end (as there was no solution at the time), but I tried to be helpful as an asker and received a decent answer:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52859316/animated-plot-w...
Because this is my only experience asking a question I was asking about specific examples where you felt the people on the site behaved badly. It was not to audit anyone but to improve (as I've answered a bunch of questions myself). :)
¹ Query: https://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=%5br%5d%20clos...
² How to make a minimal reproducible example (MRE): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-gr...