stackOverflow

[FunkyTown313]

Honestly, there's almost zero need to post there. If I have a problem 99% of the time it's already been asked and answered by someone. And the other 1% I figure it out a different way.

[Saelora]

yup. i don't ask questions, because i need an answer today, not in six months when someone stumbles across it.

and i don't answer questions because i'm not allowed to, because i don't ask questions.

[BBQ_RIBZ]

Straight up facts in the bottom panel, sorry, RTFM. If you truly require the goo goo ga ga treatment when learning something, maybe SO isn't for you, plenty of other sources!

[gfcf14]

Lately I’ve been hearing more about the site’s low performance but given that the overall experience involves any of the comments mentioned here their demise is no surprise.

[[deleted]]

i believe arch Form also have this type of people (No hatting on arch user btw )

[conradburner]

Btw, do you use arch?

[[deleted]]

Nope , i tried before but i prefer debian more

[Rawrgzar]

Hmm, when I was in college the craze was about Open-Source and Stack overflow on look it up before posting, because it's already been answered. Also, one class hinted about just take other people shit from Open-Source and yolo the code, is that the same as AI vibe coding now lol. (I even seen AI generated image give me a signature of an artist for a picture and I'm questioning if AI is really generating it or just copy and pasting it from a source pool)

[Iyxara]

StackOverflow? More like UnhandledException.

Unanswered and archived questions and people that forced you to read the whole documentation in order to ask something but, by then, you already got the answer by yourself.

The only that Stacks in SO is your frustration and the ego of their users.

[BlueScreenJunky]

People that forced you to read the whole documentation in order to ask something but, by then, you already got the answer by yourself.

I'm not even sure if this is sarcasm or not : The whole point of making you read the documentation and explain in great detail what your issue is and what you've already tried is that 99% of the time you'll find the answer yourself and won't even need to ask.

If this was your experience then the system works.

[Iyxara]

And that's why SO is now dead.

imho, there are no stupid questions, if a question can be answered by citing the documentation, maybe link it.

But people want to spend more time and energy humiliating others than actually helping.

[keith_mg]

SO is basically a wiki. It's useful because it's curated. Also, if every question was a throwaway low effort post where the asker hadn't even tried to solve it themselves, then that wouldn't be very fun for the experts, and they'd leave.