Stack Overflow
However, Stack Overflow has a very tough community. It can be quite challenging to post a question there AND get a decent answer and you could easily feel bullied there. The Stack Overflow lords know about it, and they tried to fix it with stricter rules about how people SHOULD behave, but they are far from reaching that.
Today, the AI will solve your problems much faster.
Fighting bullies on Stack Overflow
People will downvote your question without explaining why. Don’t worry – the negative points received are not parking fines. You don’t have to pay real money for them J. Ask why you have been down voted. I hate this behavior so send me an email and I promise you will help you.
My policy on Stack Overflow is to upvote questions that have been downvoted while no feedback was left for the negative vote. How do those people think that the question can be improved if they never say what’s wrong (in their opinion) with the question?
The bullies always have 5-gram brains.
In my opinion people should not be allowed to be anonymous when they downvote. If you receive feedback for the downvote, try to improve your question based on that feedback. We can only learn from constructive criticism!
How to post on Stack Overflow (without being shutdown)
You might have an easy question to ask, but it is not easy to ask it on Stack Overflow. Its standards are very high. Your question can be closed or downvoted because:
- It is unclear.
- It is too easy (yes, that’s a thing on Stack Overflow).
- It was already asked (in this case the question will be closed – even if the question was not answered).
- It is too specific.
- Your English is imperfect.
- People don’t like you or simply because they can.
Therefore:
- Ask Google or the AI your question before posting it on Stack Overflow. It is highly likely that you will get the answer much faster than on Stack Overflow and with minimal effort!
- If you are not a native speaker, always pass your text through a grammar checker before you post it. People tend to down vote good questions posted in bad English.
- Don’t use “hi”, “please” and “thank you”. Focus on your question/content. Nobody will consider you This is how questions/answers on Stack Overflow are supposed to be.
- Never start a dispute/fight with others. If people attack you directly in a comment, flag their comment. Maybe a moderator will look over it.
- Add lots of details and screenshots so the people can understand the question.
- Don’t add too many details because nobody will read the question if it is too large (yes, I know this contradicts the above statement which means that you will struggle a bit until you find a good balance).
- If your question is down voted massively or closed, you can delete it and ask it again AFTER you fixed the issue. Ask your friends if they understand your question, as it is written on the screen. If they don’t, then probably nobody does.
Ask the artificial intelligence
In most cases AI is much better than Stack Overflow because:
- You don’t have to work hard to construct your question – Many of your questions may on closed on Stack Overflow as unclear.
- It can answer your very personalized question – Many of your questions may be closed on Stack Overflow as too broad or too specific.
- It can answer as many questions as you like.
- Does not downvote you and does not give back snarky answers😊.
- Most importantly – the AI is fast! The AI knows all answers from Stack Overflow so it will answer immediately.
Testimonials
- The decline of Stack Overflow
- My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow
- Why I no Longer Contribute to StackOverflow
- One Aspect of Stack Overflow I Hate and How to Fix it
- Question quality is dropping on Stack Overflow
- StackOverflow needs Tweaking
- StackOverflow is Dead
- StackOverflow Sucks
- Why StackOverflow Sucks
- This is Why StackOverflow Sucks
- Why StackOverflow Sucks and Participating There is Impossible
- Stack Overflow Hates New Users
- Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In
- Why Reddit is Better than Stack Overflow (WAAAAY Better)
- Off-topic on Stackoverflow: that’s enough