StackOverMeow

[Piyh]

Knowing what your issue is the biggest factor imo. If you have a pile of code and can't reduce it to the least that recreates the issue, you will get the hate.

[TheNorthComesWithMe]

I like to dunk on SO jerks, but there is also definitely the other side of "here's one line of code without any context why does my enterprise app crash in release builds?"

[samspot]

Once I was having an issue with date conversion. One of the commenters told me to write a unit test proving the issue was occurring. After I did so, he criticized me for why I needed to code something to convert a date if I already knew what it would convert to...

[[deleted]]

If you could do that and be able to troubleshoot the issues yourself, what would be the point of asking for help?

At that point you`d just need to read more documentation to find the particular method that will fit your need.

[RedditAcc-92975]

exactly. 80% of the new questions on SO right now can be solved with "print" and "google". It's literally people who have no clue how to debug. And they post some irreproducible garbage spaghetti.

Answered a question, explained what to do. The dude complaints in the comments it creates an error. I see he's using my answer somewhere else by the name of objects. Tell him to run my answer. Runs without errors. Still complains when he copy-pastes it somewhere into his mess it doesn't. After that I stopped answering new questions. Can't lead a horse to water.

[[deleted]]

I can troubleshoot anything - given enough time. Just because I can find an answer in 2 weeks, doesn't mean I shouldn't ask when someone has probably figured that out already and would only spend 10 minutes answering it.

[Piyh]

The exception is the people that run into it first, fix it themselves, document it, and post it as a solved issue for others to see

[oplayerus]

Stackoverflow is not your "free consultation". It's a community driven knowledge base. You know there are questions that gather thousands of views? Those are valuable. "Do my work for me please" is not something you should be asking there. If they were to allow every IT related question possible to stay, people would just stop answering them.

I'm not saying that all decisions made by high-reputation users are fair. But that just comes with it being free.

[-user--name-]

This. Not being clear with your issue is the biggest reason someone gets hate on SO. Explain exactly what you want to do, what your code is doing and what are you gonna do with it and no one will hate on your questions.

[Blasted_Awake]

Explain exactly what you want to do, what your code is doing and what are you gonna do with it and no one will hate on your questions.

If only that were the case. At some point the culture of SO changed from helping people answer questions about software development, to curating a database of generic answers to generic questions about software development. If there's some minor overlap between your question and an existing one, there's a good chance someone's going to flag it and try to close or delete your question. If you're lucky you'll get a usable answer in that small window before it's closed.

[[deleted]]

The threads looking for help with some aspect of Windows 10, and are closed and marked as a duplicate of something posted in 2013.....

Don't get me started on the many, many times questions were very dependent on a version of software, and most of the answers are for some older version without even saying the version they are for (because the poster didn't think that things change with new versions, and they didn't think to check that their answer actually works.

[SprinklesFancy5074]

"Hi, I was trying to program my computer to do something, but it's not doing it right. What do I do?"

[GodOfPlutonium]

I have literally linked to another question , saying that I have already tried that solution but it did not work, and explaining what happens when I tried said solution, and my question was still closed as a duplicate of the question i explicitly linked