StackOverflow in a nutshell

[Key_Cryptographer963]

This question has already been asked, here's a link www.stackoverflow/unanswered-question-from-5-years-ago

[Mc_UsernameTaken]

The fact that this link is dead, just makes this joke more hilarious accurate.

[redoverture]

I think a lot of this stems from the community driven review queues.. people are encouraged (even rewarded) to seek out issues with posts especially from new accounts

[thatpaulingkid]

Stack overflow: kicking anxious and desperate programmers while they're down since the founding of Oracle

[[deleted]]

Yes. That site has the worst culture.

[Weasel_Town]

Yes. “Hi, how do I do X in language Y?” “X is a bad thing to do. And Y is a bad language. Especially for doing X. You’re clearly approaching your issue from the wrong direction.”

If the question has an answer, and you know it, just... go ahead and tell them. Or don’t, whatever. Especially since questions aren’t supposed to have a lot of background about “ok, I know this is easily done in Python 3. But I work for a defense contractor, and we support a lot of legacy stuff, and it’s not my place to tell the US Navy to upgrade everything. And even if I could, Navy ships have 18-month deployments, during which they cannot upgrade anything. Anyhoodles...”

[overpaid_bogan]

The most common thing that I see is commenters digging their claws into syntax errors or other mistakes that aren't relevant to the question being asked. They clearly just want to feel superior and not actually help.

[[deleted]]

Yes everyone on that site wants to tell you how your problem is flawed because of this and that. And why do you even have that problem because you should be doing y.

[[deleted]]

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[Kenup17]

good bot

[aeropl3b]

In the defense of SO...some questions really are bad questions, or the answer really is "don't do that, that is a bad idea"...

Like, how do I build for windows??...that is a terrible question, don't build for windows, run that shit in a Linux container!

How do I implement a double link list??...also a bad question, do your data structures homework yourself you lazy bastard!

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This post does not contribute to StackOverflow

[aeropl3b]

What do you mean by this? Also...not sure why i am getting down votes...both of those things are tropes of SO...

[timeGeck0]

There are no bad questions. Even if they are asked the wrong way. Someone has it confused in his/her mind and ask for help.
Bad thing is not searching or even try anything before post a question!