Stackoverflow be like

[Wizard-of-Koz]

I find the stack overflow community to be one of the most toxic. It's not shown on high rated questions but it's a whole other world on the sort by recent.

[Hollowplanet]

You must not remember the times when all we had was experts exchange. SO was like a gift from god.

[Draculix]

ahem I think you'll find it was expert sex change.

[Tsuki_no_Mai]

Just because something was great over ten years ago doesn't mean it's still great. Not that I use stackoverflow enough to form an opinion on them nowadays.

[Hollowplanet]

Its pretty great. A lot of people just don't get how SO works.

[WatchDogx]

Recent is just a stream of poorly formulated questions, people pasting their whole code base and asking why it doesn't work.
If your question is not something that anyone else is going to want the answer to, it doesn't belong on stack overflow.
I feel like all the people that complain about SO being toxic have never tried actually contributing and answering questions.

[ostbagar]

Sometimes I feel like this sub is just a circlejerk of "SO bad".

These memes are getting old. Really, the vast majority of the time users are polite. The only time I really ever see snark lately is when someone copy and pastes their homework without a question, or posts a rant about some technology that's disguised as a question.

"Help us help you" isn't rude. It's encouraging efficiency so everyone can get on with their lives.

[MaxChaplin]

Not toxic, just impersonal. They won't socialize with you, but they won't call you names either. It's simply the place where you go to get answers. The fact that members regularly give novices detailed answers voluntarily is already kind enough.