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10-22-2018
, 10:04 AM
10-22-2018
, 10:33 AM
10-22-2018
, 01:46 PM
Lol I didn't notice this reply (which got downvoted so it was greyish) to my HN thread at first:
ChefKiss.jpg - couldn't have summarized the attitude over there any better.
Ok yeah, the whole world seems aware of this and I'm pretty late to the party: https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-o...w-7cb69faa575d
Heh - I went ahead with the bad from. But I was legitimately trying to help.
Ok NOW this is all making sense:
As I suspected that whole "Show us your Stack Overflow" thing went to their heads. And apparently there could actually be real money at stake, which makes it much worse. It's kind of like how TripAdvisor is mostly ruined for reviews now because everyone games it.
Lol:
Ok enough obsession with SO. Argh.
Quote:
If you don't post details of your SO account so that other people can go evaluate your post/comment history for themselves, then this just comes across as evidence-free whingeing, which is the worst kind of whingeing. "I did nothing wrong, honest!" is very easy to say.
I was so close to flagging this post, but I figured I'd be generous and wait to see if you come back and give any information at all.
I was so close to flagging this post, but I figured I'd be generous and wait to see if you come back and give any information at all.
Ok yeah, the whole world seems aware of this and I'm pretty late to the party: https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-o...w-7cb69faa575d
Quote:
As such, I decided I’d join the site to see if I could help out. Never before has a website given me a worse first impression.
In an effort to keep the community as clean and orderly as possible, new users have very little rights from the get-go. On paper, this is a pretty nice idea. In practice, it makes it difficult for new users to gain any traction. I read through a number of questions today and had several comments for the original poster. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make my comments, since new users cannot post comments on articles they themselves didn’t write (you have to gain “reputation” in order to gain that privilege). Posting my comment as an “answer” to the original question seemed like bad form, so I didn’t do that.
In an effort to keep the community as clean and orderly as possible, new users have very little rights from the get-go. On paper, this is a pretty nice idea. In practice, it makes it difficult for new users to gain any traction. I read through a number of questions today and had several comments for the original poster. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make my comments, since new users cannot post comments on articles they themselves didn’t write (you have to gain “reputation” in order to gain that privilege). Posting my comment as an “answer” to the original question seemed like bad form, so I didn’t do that.
Ok NOW this is all making sense:
Quote:
On a blog named Michael’s Techbox, an anonymous commenter made the following remark:
The Stack Exchange websites are billed as a “free and open” exchange of information, but in actuality these sites are overrun with a select few members who are just trying to score points, “badges”, and moderator status in attempt to appear as “experts” and gain freelance work.
For example, check out this member’s activity, which instead of contributing helpful technical answers, consists solely of acting like a judge on other people’s answers:
http://stackexchange.com/users/85265...r?tab=activity
source
The Stack Exchange websites are billed as a “free and open” exchange of information, but in actuality these sites are overrun with a select few members who are just trying to score points, “badges”, and moderator status in attempt to appear as “experts” and gain freelance work.
For example, check out this member’s activity, which instead of contributing helpful technical answers, consists solely of acting like a judge on other people’s answers:
http://stackexchange.com/users/85265...r?tab=activity
source
Lol:
Ok enough obsession with SO. Argh.
Last edited by suzzer99; 10-22-2018 at 02:07 PM.
10-22-2018
, 04:50 PM
10-22-2018
, 04:56 PM
Quote:
Lol I didn't notice this reply (which got downvoted so it was greyish) to my HN thread at first:
ChefKiss.jpg - couldn't have summarized the attitude over there any better.
Ok yeah, the whole world seems aware of this and I'm pretty late to the party: https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-o...w-7cb69faa575d
Heh - I went ahead with the bad from. But I was legitimately trying to help.
Ok NOW this is all making sense:
As I suspected that whole "Show us your Stack Overflow" thing went to their heads. And apparently there could actually be real money at stake, which makes it much worse. It's kind of like how TripAdvisor is mostly ruined for reviews now because everyone games it.
Lol:
Ok enough obsession with SO. Argh.
ChefKiss.jpg - couldn't have summarized the attitude over there any better.
Ok yeah, the whole world seems aware of this and I'm pretty late to the party: https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-o...w-7cb69faa575d
Heh - I went ahead with the bad from. But I was legitimately trying to help.
Ok NOW this is all making sense:
As I suspected that whole "Show us your Stack Overflow" thing went to their heads. And apparently there could actually be real money at stake, which makes it much worse. It's kind of like how TripAdvisor is mostly ruined for reviews now because everyone games it.
Lol:
Ok enough obsession with SO. Argh.
That probably summarizes SO experience better than any other possible response.
10-22-2018
, 05:58 PM
It's clearly not real - "Timothy Goatse" lol - but excellent satire. See also "How can I use JavaScript to parse some HTML using Regex" lmao, and the other finely crafted "related" questions 
Last edited by _dave_; 10-22-2018 at 05:59 PM.
Reason: You may need to be of a certain internet vintage to get that, if you don't then consider yourself lucky and do not google!
10-22-2018
, 06:06 PM
Here's one that is real:
My deleted answer just says to check the help center to figure out why it was deleted.
Dammit - I wasn't even going to get into this all day. I was done. And then Grue had to point out my first and only HackerNews success story. And now I'm having an anxiety attack.
I've been trying not to do my usual and gain 20-30 lbs. at a new job (happens every time). So I'm dieting which stresses me out. I thought I was doing fine though, felt great - and then SO just triggered all the stress out. Like some unstable solution that looks fine, but you tap it and it changes phases.
My deleted answer just says to check the help center to figure out why it was deleted.
Dammit - I wasn't even going to get into this all day. I was done. And then Grue had to point out my first and only HackerNews success story. And now I'm having an anxiety attack.
I've been trying not to do my usual and gain 20-30 lbs. at a new job (happens every time). So I'm dieting which stresses me out. I thought I was doing fine though, felt great - and then SO just triggered all the stress out. Like some unstable solution that looks fine, but you tap it and it changes phases.
Last edited by suzzer99; 10-22-2018 at 06:23 PM.
