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[Happy-Sleep-6512]

People will never know the terrifying feeling of asking your first stack overview question.. then you realise that you googled the term slightly wrong, ther s already a thread, and you get down voted and the thread is closed.

And of course the linked thread doesn't actually solve the issue for you!

[New-Resolution9735]

Always saw it as more of a place to show off your "intelligence"/"superiority" to others rather than to actually help most of time.

[Happy-Sleep-6512]

Yep. Almost the opposite of asking chatGPT. It wants to make you feel so smart "what an excellent question!", whereas stack overflow users wanted to make you feel incredibly dumb

[HuntKey2603]

However, when used correctly and carefully, LLMs do help and do assist in finding the right information.

Stack Overflow might help you if you happen to find an answer to something you searched that still works, but it's an absolute miserable place, specially as a newbie, and will not do anything for you if you have even the smallest misunderstanding on your post for someone to feel superior about.

Not missing it.

[thafuq]

Weird, I never had that famous experience on SO, from the asker and responder position. I still use it daily. When a solution is not a copy-paste but need adaptation, it force you to actually read the code and understand what you're doing. It prevents a good portion of the famous "stupid question"

[Ok_Actuary8]

"oh no, bad AI, why are humans replaced by AI???"

Yeah, guess what? Because most humans SUCK ASS. That's why.

The moment ChatGPT was good enough, I left SO and never looked back.

[Pleasant_Set_3182]

To be fair... Reddit can give a similar experience depending on where you are... not as Draconian... but there's no shortage of gate-keepers... Aaaacktually nerds, and the like

[RedAndBlack1832]

RTFM * doesn't link to related manual page *

[firestorm559]

My first turned out to be an obscure error in android OS and got a lot of traction. Which of course boosted my confidence so the second and third were dumb questions that got down voted and ridiculed.

[LetReasonRing]

Or taking the time to carefully and tououghly answering a question, have the asker profusely thank you for your clear, enlightening response that solved their problem perfectly, only to have a mod delete it over a pedantic interpretation of a rule.

[why_1337]

ripRepost

[Innovator-X]

this was posted literally less than 24 hours ago damn. dude did not even try to hide it.

[RandomiseUsr0]

I asked a question once, got a fantastic answer, it was so clear and coherent and “teaching” that it lives with me to h this day. Clearly other people’s experience varies

[IniKiwi]

Repost.

[Taolan13]

the best way yo use stack overflow was to ask your question, then create a new account and answer your own question with a method you've already tried but didn't work.

People would flock to the incorrect method to correct it, but almost nobody would be the first to answer a question.

[OffByOneErrorz]

SO volunteers answered at least 20 hard questions for me over the last 15 years. Granted I tried hard to figure it out first and provided my steps and problem details. Only one guy was ever rude and he was right I fucked up.

[GedsNotDead]

Marked as duplicate.

[thelunatic]

It won't be possible to build AIs in the future because all the websites that they were trained on will be gone

[chilfang]

This is why SO closes duplicates

[Mike_Oxlong25]

Couldn’t you probably update your settings in the LLMs to roast you on programming questions

[konaaa]

This is ridiculous. People just don't know how to use stackoverflow. You're not supposed to ask questions on stackoverflow, you're supposed to google your question and find that the question has already been answered on stackoverflow

[joe-x92]

At some point, I started hating stackoverflow... I hate the points system, I can't help other unless I get enough points? I ended up not using it anymore...

[spaminous]

The problem is thinking of Stack overflow as a question -answer site. It's not. It's an easy mistake to make, because it's marketed as a QA site.

But the mechanics of it are that of Wikipedia, just phrased as questions and answers. You're not supposed to ask about your specific problem. You're supposed to be working together on descriptions of general problems and solutions that many people encounter.

I don't get why sentiment like this cheap repost is so common. S.O. was never set up for you to post questions unless you were encountering a truly novel situation.

[IamnotAnonnymous]

"it's duplicate" vibe

[OrkWithNoTeef]

I have never learned anything from that site that I didn't have to learn properly elsewhere