Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible?
vrozon@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Used to spend a lot of time reading meta.stackoverflow (looked an awful lot like work at a quick glance). The sentiment from the question answerer side is something like: “I’ve answered this exact question 100s of times, why won’t anyone search”. Then this expands into enough irritation that you get a closing frenzy and similar sounding questions get caught in the cross hairs. And then everyone’s mad. (plus a sprinkle of people who are just assholes on top of that)
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It’s even “funnier” when they just sightly miss the question, because they glanced over it and thought they had already answered it multiple times, but just post a generic reply that doesn’t actually help with the nuance of the question.
Like, I get it, it’s difficult sometimes and you’re answering people for free, but instead of getting frustrated and not helping anyway, maybe just leave it be.