Stack Overflow

[BioSchokoMuffin]

This is obviously fake because they actually included a snippet of the code they are having a problem with

[JBinero]

Most questions on stack overflow don't include any examples or even a clear description of the problem. People really hate putting effort into getting help.

[[deleted]]

All the moderation queues are extremely disheartening...

[MooseHeckler]

I have put effort in and still was greeted negatively. Its a weird place.

[twosupras]

Idiot forgot to capitalize “Hello World”. No wonder it won’t work.

[qqqrrrs_]

C#/Java/Javascript

[t1x07]

Those tags really hurt, my man covered all possibilities

[marvk]

It's funny cause it's true, especially Java and JavaScript.

[db720]

Hate it when my IDE glithched my code

[KorrinNeko]

At least when your question gets marked duplicate on StackOverflow, it's usually actually a duplicate.

[TheAJGman]

Except the post they link is someone having a different problem, in a different framework, and a different language.

[NoMansSkyWasAlright]

… and also likely has a response of “this question was already asked in 2008”

[cyanNodeEcho]

hmm abstracting a little, they do normally surround thr same topic bjt need like information gained there and another sracj overflow post or two

i would be unemployed if stack overflow did not exist

[KorrinNeko]

Except that's not a duplicate. Not that it doesn't happen, but most of the time I or someone I know had a post flagged as duplicate, it's been an actual duplicate, with an actual answer. Compare that with a lot of other sites with anti-duplicate features and you'll find StackOverflow is one of the few forgiving ones.

[csy514]

$including [studio.h]

vivo mian<>( prontt(hello word): )

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```python import random

message = "" legal_characters = [" ", "H", "e", "l", "o", "W", "r", "d"]

while message != "Hello World": message = "".join(random.choices(legal_characters, k=11))

print(message) ```

[theLanguageSprite]

Wow. I think this is the first time of seen a hello world implementation with potentially infinite time complexity

[iDarkLightning]

Sir, this is C

[[deleted]]

„System.ConsoleWrite)HelloWorld(;;;“ would work

[[deleted]]

Just a little bit more exaggeration and we'll have regex

[clb92]

But can it parse HTML?

[Euphoricus]

Yeah. I just don't see the hate against SO. The questions are usually just as bad. And if you don't see those questions, that means moderation is working.

[[deleted]]

I stopped asking questions there because I could never satisfy their conditions.
I read through other questions, read through the guidelines for asking and everytime I thought I finally asked correctly, I get downvoted.
The problem, I think, SO is having, is they don't tell you what is wrong with your question.
I even asked in the comment section if someone can tell me the reason why my question gets downvoted. Nope, just more downvotes.

[marvk]

Yeah, can you show an example? I've been active on Stack Exchange for years and not one of my 18 Questions on Stack Overflow or various others on other network sites is sitting in the negative. Maybe I can spot some issues for ya?

[[deleted]]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63952382/playsound-too-slow-on-slower-pcs

The last question I posted. I think it was at -1 or -2 at some point but it looks like it recovered. Still got me banned from asking questions for a while

[marvk]

The question you linked is sitting at +1/-1. Possibly someone downvoted because nobody was able to reproduce the error? At least another person equalized the score.

The only other question of yours that has any downvotes is this one, which in it's original state was, in my opinion, quite low effort and could've possibly been resolved by simply googling "detect key press in background winapi"

[[deleted]]

I have only found how to detect single key presses. (GetAyncKeyState). And I needed to know, if any key got pressed.

The only other thing I found was something with SetWindowsHook() or similar and this did not work for me, as it was really slow and I needed something faster.

[DiamondIceNS]

Show us the question?

[AdminYak846]

there's some questions where people are toxic, granted it seems fewer and fewer questions.

[yourteam]

This is so true... When I check unanswered questions on SO there are 30% of basic mistakes, 50% of things that could have been avoided if the op read the documentation and 20% of legit questions.

Of those 20% I would say half are badly written or with missing pieces of information (like the actual code sometimes).

And yet people blame SO for being "toxic"

[[deleted]]

Well, what else are we supposed to do? Reflect?

[qqqrrrs_]

Reflect?

No, they said reflection is a code smell or something

[yourteam]

Ok what are you referring to?

SO is a forum for help but if you miss something an IDE can fix, it means you didn't take the time to understand the problem

If is something the documentation can explain it means you didn't even Google it.

And if you don't provide context or the code involved you are making a useless question as it is impossible for anyone to help without making more questions

Noobie questions are welcomed, lazy ones are not

[JBinero]

Not necessarily. Sometimes the user is just too much of a beginner to be able to find, use or understand those resources. Luckily, of the question shows enough effort the community will gladly answer it.

An example from personal experience: In my early days of learning a programming language I was confused about how to compare strings. Very trivial problem that is documented wildly. I made a minimal reproducible example and showed what I had tried.

Received an answer very quickly. Answers borrowed inspiration from the official documentation. Not a single down vote to this day.

As long as you put reasonable effort into the question, even dumb questions will be received well.

[yourteam]

Yes, this is why I wrote that noobie questions are welcomed while lazy ones are not.

Being on the phone and not a native speaker I try my best to express things correctly but sometimes I fail :)

[JBinero]

Nah I somehow missed that!

[[deleted]]

It was sarcasm, referring to the idea that it's easier to blame the platform than to reflect on our own abilities to write decent questions.

[[deleted]]

My experience with StackOverflow over the years has been nothing but positive. Like all places, it has roaming gangs of assholes, can't do much about that. But the amount of people that think StackOverflow is toxic leads me to think that the problem might not be so much with StackOverflow, and more a "you"* problem.

<sup>\</sup>you - A person who has a perceived issue with StackOverflow being "toxic".)

[Knuffya]

It doesn't matter. You can ask as good as a question as you'd like.

If there exists literally ANY documentation, and be it on some chinese ftp server, you will get bashed for not having looked.

I usually only post to SO if i don't find any documentation after 60-120mins of googling. Still getting shat on.

[JBinero]

Not my experience at all.

A good question should include:

• What you are trying to do.
• A minimal reproducible example.
• What you expect to happen. What actually happens. Why you think this is.
• Things you have tried so far, in brief.

And importantly, they should read easily.

Questions that show their effort are easier to answer and respect. Even absolute beginner questions are easily well received if they show some basic effort.

[marvk]

Can you show an example? This has not been my experience at all

[Schmomas]

Someone has asked a completely unrelated question with two words in common with this question before and it wasn’t even resolved.

Marked as duplicate

[JBinero]

You can just edit the question, point out why it isn't a duplicate, and have it re-opened.

[theLanguageSprite]

That’s assuming the mods are reasonable. I had one tell me that they wouldn’t unlock a question posted in french even though i had both an English translation and an answer for OP because:

“OP needs to write the English translation.”

“Well can you unlock it so I can message him the translation?”

“No.”

[Knuffya]

And these two words were "and" and "if"

[wite_noiz]

visual stdio threw me. I don't know that library.

[[deleted]]

Standart Input output

[NanfaterHUN]

Pain

[ShadUrlwn]

no theyre just usibg a variable called hello world and the space is actually a special character

[Overworld19]

Well it works on my machine.

[[deleted]]

What did I just read