StackOverflow

The site has a very wide variety of programming problems which makes it a very useful tool. However if you try to make a question about some code of yours you'll probably see some pretty high toxicity. Some members will be willing to help you, others will strictly critisice you, your code and how you didn't follow the rules of the site and then help you and others wiil stick on critisicing you only using the rules.

I would love for stack overflow to be this ideal, democratic system, in which people who have questions can ask them, and people who have answers can answer them.

Unfortunately, there are a million little illogical rules that make it a very complicated struggle to "simply" ask or answer questions on this website, as most users will spend a lot of time tediously criticising your questions instead of actually giving answers to it, and also because since you're new, you can't really do anything on the website like comment or vote whenever you feel it would not only help your situation, but also help other users.

From what I understand, it's because of the "points" system that they invented, whose only purpose is to create some sick hierarchy between "good" law-abiding users who spend hours on the website everyday, and "bad" users (the people who just want an answer to their questions. Bad people!).

I'm sorry, but giving "rewards" to people just because they use your website and blocking newcomers is probably the worst strategy in the internet age.

It's easy to get your account locked and be blocked from posting questions. If questions aren't presented in a perfect way prepare for an onslaught of negativity.

Some of them are unreasonably arrogant. Even when i solved my problem by myself and posted as the answer, someone downvoted it, because it was not in the format that he likes!

Don't trust stackoverflow. Be very careful when you copy and paste code from stackoverflow.

There are so many people on this website who don't deserve their score. They aren't knowledgeable at all.
1. Many posts don't answer the technical issue but they get well ranked which is a nonsense When it is technical it should be easy. Step 1, step 2, step 3. For example, when it comes to programming. Pieces of code can answer any questions.
2. Some contributors are rude and they answer "read the manual", however they get thumbs up. How is it possible?
3. Here is the most important, people who share brilliant ideas and answers are not rewarded. It is not normal to see brilliant answers at the bottom of the page.
4. Some people are arrogant and try to argue rather than being pro and get straight to the point.
5. There are -1 that are given to good questions and good answers. You may see people receiving minus one for no reasons.
6. The moderators are stupid nazis. If the moderation of stackoverflow was efficient, there would not be so much garbage on Stackoverflow.
7. People only copy / paste pieces of official documentation like php.net
8. People paraphrase the official documentation without understanding it.
9. Some people talk philosophy while we expect to see code. So, after reading 4 responses you discover that you learned nothing.
10. Some pieces of code can be dangerous and don't blindly trust this code.

I hope that person, who gave me a downvote, whose reality is that they can be somebody who is qualified to put down others, so that they won't have time bothering strangers at the Internet

I've been around stackoverflow for a few years and so I have a few questions there. My most recent question was put on hold almost straight away stating that I needed to be more specific. So I edited my question and then waited, but nothing came of it. The moderator that basically locked my question then went through some of my old questions and edited them... changing complete sentences as he saw fit.

English is not my first language, but the amount of time spend judging and editing my questions was probably 100 times more than just helping me with my problem. An ENTIRE day was completely wasted as I waited for someone, anyone, to help me move forward with the issue I had.

Naturally I had to work after hours and had to do a complete patch job just to have something that works because I dared asking for help and my grammar and spelling wasn't up to their standards.

I live in a third world country. The thing third world countries need the most is education/knowledge. That's what I came to stackoverflow for. If you want to help with my grammar and spelling, that's fine, but in this case the most important thing was completely ignored and I just got shoved aside. I can't even close my own question now.

I find it ultimately useful for a learner of computer programming, who want to be a full stack developer. I surfed the site while I was facing problems at my course of developing a software.

This site is very helpful for anyone looking for answers to their coding problems. I have received help so many times that I want to share this resource with others.

It's good sites to resolve bugs of your app or websites. I am a programmer so I get so much help from this site. I can also ask questions and get so many answers from experts.

The majority of coders who have jobs, take coding seriously just want an open forum. That ISN'T StackOverFlow.

It's a fascist communist dictatorship. You ACTUALLY have to earn 50 points before you can post answers to other peoples questions!

God willing, you want to ask a question to "Earn Points"; the "moderators" will delete your well thought out questions because they aren't formatted within the strict guidelines dictated by the socialist overlord's. Rather than making it possible to earn points they just frustrate you to no end.

It's total BULL $#*! and I don't say that lightly. I worked very hard on my posts and then didn't use the service for a few years and lost points.

God forbid that you should express a point of view (complain about it). I canceled my account and I recommend EVERYONE do the same! Send these NAZI's a message!

The plantation is closed!

When, individuals in a social community are motivated to help other people you shouldn't stand in their way. When you combine personal freedom with a powerful and intelligent education, individuals can recognize their own responsibilities and effectively carry them out.

There are plenty of services that do that much better. In a free online community, vicious lawbreakers can be punished without severely impacting everyone else. Some people will be successful and others will not, and that can't be changed under any circumstances.

If people need help from society then that responsibility falls on the individuals through the channels the people themselves create, and moderate.

I contributed to one of the Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) communities, mostly by answering questions and commenting frequently. My account was suspended immediately after I challenged someone (high in the ranks) with a provocative question. I asked why I was suspended and was not given an answer. I asked a second time, still no answer. I finally contacted their main office, asking what the policy was because I was never given a warning. A community member (someone that posts regularly and is friendly toward the moderator that banned me) wrote me back to that my suspension was applied correctly, that normally they warn people but they didn't warn me. Their findings were subjective.

I like the Q & A format of the site, I like that it moves fast. I don't like the retaliation and bullying that occurs as a result of the ability to up and down vote and I don't like the way the moderators play into the bullying. I don't like that most questions are answered with opinions even though the site says it prides itself on being opinion-free. I don't like that most of the questions are answered poorly.

One of the worst egoistic pile of ** idiots in the community who doesn't accept your question regardless of how much you spend time framing your question perfectly.

This site is ridiculous, and it's created to be so. Firstly I started noticing some of the answers that I knew were totally wrong, or at least very inefficient. So, I tried to help by up-voting, down-voting, and commenting correct answers. But I was stymied by a system that requires you to have a "reputation" before you can do anything. But, in order to get a reputation, you have to do stuff. As I went around this site, looking for ways to help and contribute and increase my "reputation" score I found that you can't even down-vote an incorrect answer because I didn't have enough. And honestly, most of the solutions I've seen upvoted around there are asinine. It's *clear* they should start allowing real experts who might not have used the site very much (because we figure everything out on our own) to contribute instead of these childish commentors, mainly because they've just used the site more. I just tried to downvote two blatantly incorrect answers and was stymied. I won't use this site, and I won't let my employees either.

If you just want answers, StackOverflow can be brilliant. Go on and browse until your heart is content.

However, if you want to be part of the community, get your battle gear on because this place is incredibly nasty! The trolls on here are not like those on Facebook or other social media platforms (and whether SO like it or not, they have enabled the site to become a glorified social media site for techy trolls). What seems to be a sizable portion of Users are really horrible, angry people, who are set off by the most trivial of things. They are akin to that a'hole in the bar who starts squaring up to you with "are you looking at me?!". This is SatckOverflow!

However, as with all a'holes they take their lead from somewhere, and that lead is from SO themselves. Throughout the site you can see high levels of obnoxiousness and arrogance. All in all one could strongly argue that the problem with SO is that the people who own and operate it are total a'holes themselves.

You don't even need to take my word for it, here's an article from SO themselves. The fact that it's over two years old and obviously had no impact says all you need to know about StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/

I think this us the best place to learn anything about web development. For years it has been a one stop for developers alike. Kudos!

I hardly ever do this, but today StackOverflow really just made me so mad. I used to enjoy getting helpful answers to questions, but I don't know when the so called "tech geniuses" decided to use the site and ended up making it so snobby. Here is how to use the site:

USE BIG FANCY WORDS THIS WAY PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE ACTUALLY A CODER.

MAKE SURE YOU ASK QUESTIONS THEY DEEM TO BE GOOD.

LASTLY, MAKE SURE YOU FIND OUT HOW MUCH THEY WANT POSTED.
Some will say the minimum, while others say post everything.

Seriously, they told me I can't "contribute" (in other words ask questions, which is what the site was meant for), because my previous questions apparently weren't good enough. Basically they just insulted my intelligence as someone who is in school learning how to code. HELLO! I am not going to know everything. That's what I was there for.

Also, about 99% of the "help" you will get, is people fixing your grammar and spelling. Didn't know that the site was for English teachers to go in and fix that, instead of REAL coders coming in and helping you with a problem. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A COMMUNITY AS CODERS AND THIS SITE DOESN'T REFLECT THAT!

Some of the people is just commenting, not solving the problem. The moderator also is bias, If you are newbie I think you have no place to be here.

This forum is amazing for Developers and future developers. The web site have a lot for users and a lot of topics to choose from.

I am a senior lead developer, many years of developing in different languages and platform. I am also part time teacher in computer science and development.
Till a few years ago I loved this website. People were helpful, friendly, and respectful. Now it became the Facebook of programming. I posted a few posts about Python and WordPress. Two things I don't really know and want to learn. The posts are simple, I am not demanding (like some, more liked, questions are), within the rules of this 'website'. Not even 5 minutes later the posts are removed. Reasons; not inside the rules of stack overflow and it is not a programming question. How can a question about 'Running a query from MySql in PHP gives error' (with all explanations, errors and codes) not be a programming question?

Other example; I am building this application for my company. It holds sensitive information and the code-style and functions/methods cannot be placed outside the company. I had a problem and no-one in the company (a 2600+ employee-company) could help me out. So I placed a question, with sufficient information and code examples, so called snippets (which you also get from answers from these other 'developers' on stackoverflow), and I get 30 replies. I was happy, but 29 of the replies was about the fact the examples aren't sufficient and people need to see the whole codebase. The example code I gave works fine and showed my problems.

I removed my account and I am trying to warn others. Google works way better and if you have questions and want answers of REAL developers and engineers; go to Reddit. I have way more success there.

StackOverflow is history if it was up to me. The moderators think they are God/Allah, or whatever god you believe in.

So many unecessary rules, not beginner friendly, never received useful advice. Don't recommend this website.

One of the worthless and $#*!est site in developement not any answar and i am not okay with this site so please remove it form my serach