Is StackOverflow becoming less useful to anyone else?
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A lot of people hit "reply" thinking it's a forum
I can't find the reply button.
I see a big blue "Post Your Answer" button, but people don't read buttons, just the color of the button.
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I'm still not following what someone replying to their own posts and your post have to do with each other, but my brain is mashed so I'm assuming that's me not getting it.
They're doing it wrong, that's what. They click a button that isn't for the task they're trying to accomplish. It probably happened enough that the toaster became a thing. You're making the classic mistake of underestimating human stupidity, our one limitless resource.
I can't find the reply button.
Keep looking, blakey.
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Keep looking, blakey.
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So, you're saying this is what's going on.
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Did they not even think of new colours when inventing @Dischorse?!
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That's what @Yamikuronue says, and she hangs out in these places more than me. But it seems quite plausible to me, having observed users in the wild.
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Did they not even think of new colours when inventing @Dischorse?!
Like wine colored seas and bronze colored skies?
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I was thinking more the light grey used in places, and the blue used on the text not the button.
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But people want to use it like a solve my exact problem for me in my context
It's meant to be that too, because without the context a question is often plain unanswerable (well, with a sane amount of effort). It's just that sometimes those exact problems in precise contexts result in answers that other people find useful. When the question is well-asked and well-answered, it often attracts upvotes, becomes highly ranked by Google as a good place in general to find that sort of answer, etc.
It's a clever system that solves exactly what it solves (how to find the answer for a particular, definitively answerable question) and knows it.
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So today I found a question on SO that was closed as off-topic. The question was about how to open the Chrome Developer Tools in a new window.
I guess a developer asking about developer tools on a site for developers to ask questions about development and the tools for development is off-topic then…
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Hey, closing the question was clearly less work (what with all the voting and whatnot) than answering it using one screenshot and two sentences explaining what happens when you close it / reopen it / open a new one for a different tab.
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It's a clever system that solves exactly what it solves (how to find the answer for a particular, definitively answerable question) and knows it.
It's never worked for me. I don't see the "cleverness".
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It's never worked for me. I don't see the "cleverness".
It is necessary to ask questions and provide answers without lots of snide opinion wrangling. Most people can get the hang of it quite quickly.
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Ok; I've asked several of that type of question and yet have received zero useful answers. I've also received zero advice on how to ask better questions.
Look, we're just restarting this conversation over again, but suffice it to say: from my perspective, StackOverflow is an utter waste of my time, and a complete failure as a Q&A site.
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It is necessary to ask questions and provide answers without lots of snide opinion wrangling
From his questions that I've looked at, he doesn't do that there. He just asks questions that no one apparently knows how to answer. I've had similar problems. These things happen. Of course, I've found a zillion answers on there for questions I asked of google, which found that someone on SO had already asked and answered.
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From his questions that I've looked at, he doesn't do that there. He just asks questions that no one apparently knows how to answer. I've had similar problems. These things happen. Of course, I've found a zillion answers on there for questions I asked of google, which found that someone on SO had already asked and answered.
It simply means your questions are weird -- I've had weird questions go unanswered on both SO and other Stacks before, and also answered a few weird SO questions myself. (Unfortunately, my penchant for answering weird questions is of no use to Blakey, because I deal with a different sort of weird than he does -- i.e. he's dealing with gory, obscure details of otherwise fairly-well-known web APIs, while I tend towards wacky C++ compiler-aided language-lawyering and explanations of other bizarre toolchain behaviors).
Filed under: have you ever heard of a dangerous relocation before?
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while I tend towards wacky C++ compiler-aided language-lawyering and explanations of other bizarre toolchain behaviors
This evidence clearly disproves the witness's testimony... I think?
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On literally every other online community website, you can post a casual, friendly message with a question to a forum, and you get an answer from friendly people glad to help.
You must be new here.
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This is part of why I don't ask questions there. Occasionally people answer me, but usually I just run into things people have never seen before. On the common things, either I'm fine or Google helps.
Now, CodeReview I can do, if I answer.
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On literally every other online community website
other than websites designed by programmers, like Expert Sex Change.
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Occasionally people answer me, but usually I just run into things people have never seen before.
That's what the questions I've asked have been too. In some cases, I've just knuckled down and answered them myself, either because I needed the answer immediately anyway, or because the morons giving me answers had no idea what they were doing. (Seriously, what's with most Javascript programmers anyway? Are they really that stupid?) But then one of my questions seems to have attracted some pretty good upvoting, and what is apparently a rather good answer too. I was just after the lowdown on how to make threads and signals work together. (Answer… [spoiler]it's fucking awful. POSIX threads are loopy.[/spoiler])
I prefer writing answers to writing questions. I like solving problems, and SO questions are easier than real work.