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When's the last time you asked a questions on StackOverflow? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It just occured to me, that I haven't asked anything on SO for a while now. It might even be years, the last I asked for help.

Most of the problems I come across were already faced by someone else.

Do you guys feel the same?

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[–] kennebel 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This was my experience as well. They seemed to angle the system away from the casual user, which I didn’t have time to sit around and answer questions to get enough fake internet points to interact more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it sucks. In the cases where it was really helpful, I couldn't upvote the answer that helped me solve my issue (usually with some more poorly-documented library or something).

[–] Feathercrown 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can however always accept the answer, which is similar and pretty helpful

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm not the one asking anything in this case, just findingnothers' questions and answers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

fake internet points

Your take is a valid one, but not very fair.

Points are a reputation system. People who are contribute and provide quality get increased trust and power.

It's not "fake". It's a designed system of points with meaning.

A casual surfer not being able to vote is by design. Which has a cost of missing out on valid votes, but the benefit of evading trolls and misuse.

[–] kennebel 6 points 3 months ago

Some of my saltiness comes from the fact that I tried to answer questions a few times, but told I wasn't worthy enough to participate in the conversation, and so I was confused by the system. Also, I saw people answering with lots of points, but their answers were trash and I couldn't impact that response/point gathering, and just made me think it was just another gamified system, and engineers love to game a system. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If that were really true then they would give users with 100k rep some benefit of the doubt when it comes to questions... but nope. Still get closed as "too vague" by people who haven't even heard of the thing you're asking about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

At least that's a testament to neutrality - in a shitty way.