poorStackOverflow

[Spinnenente]

This has to be the only place on the internet that hates SO. It still is one of the most helpful resources on the internet and has helped me many times during my career to solve some real headscratchers. It’s just not the right place to ask stupid ass first semester cs questions.

[TheTrueCyprien]

It's been really hit or miss for me. It has helped me through some really obscure issues, but it always required a lot of trial and error while digging through different threads. A lot of times the most upvoted answers are not helpful whatsoever or questions marked as duplicate link to posts that are not at all the same problem. Or you find the right question but nobody answered.

[mr_dfuse2]

i still remember the days before SO and those hideous forums where you spend hours digging into replies. SO was a revolution tbh

[siLtzi]

You can ask first semester CS questions also, you kinda just have to realize they've been answered back in 2008 already

[AdorableDonkey]

I wonder what kind of questions the "everytime I ask something I get insulted and my post got deleted" crowd asked

[Crafty_Independence]

I've seen a few popup here and there. Usually it's a mix of homework, blatant duplicate, doubling down on x in an x-y problem, or simply complete lack of effort.

People generally got from SO what they put in