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Or a question you had years ago. Couldn't find an answer. So you did a workaround and/or forgot about it. Now you hit the same problem search -- and find you o

Or a question you had years ago. Couldn't find an answer. So you did a workaround and/or forgot about it. Now you hit the same problem search -- and find you original question. But wait! Now there are half-a-dozen other people with the same problem! So you click on all of those links. But none of them could find an answer either. Bonus points if there's a guy who comes in condescendingly and quotes a manual or some other standard piece of information -- which is also wrong. This is usually because they didn't pay enough attention to understand the question in the first place.

franciscop 11y ago
"So you did a workaround" I always answer my own questions if no answer was given and I found a workaround/hack to solve it. Not for myself, but chances are that in few years, if I search for the same question I'll find my own.
Keyframe 11y ago
I had a guy, on stackoverflow, commenting condescendingly on my question (or was it an answer, can't remember) that I was wrong and I should edit my post with his answer instead. All would be well if it wasn't on a 6 year old post at the time, and he was wrong. Ah, stackoverflow - what happened to you? It was fine and dandy when it was all loose. Now you ask a question and it's immediately flagged for various reasons. I've noticed that a lot in programming (I'm not actively programming anymore). It's always fun until the entropy of the rigidness comes in.
- SmirkingRevenge 11y ago
  I really hate that. I'd say at least half of the questions/answers I come across are closed flagged as vague, or whatever but at the same time, were incredibly informative, useful and exactly what I was looking for. The SO moderators need to chillax a bit.
- arsenide 11y ago
  The one time I posted a question on SO, it got flagged as duplicate and there were links to multiple other questions that were not even remotely the same to mine. Even more so, the tagged questions were not even mutually the same! It took two hours to carefully craft my question just to have it immediately shot down. It is needless to say I have not posted again since.
  - thenomad 11y ago
    Yup. If I post anything on SO or related sites it's because I hope to get an answer before the question is inevitably closed. I just assume that my question won't fit their guidelines, regardless of what it is, these days.
  - GFischer 11y ago
    Sometimes the problem with Stack Overflow is different: the question has been asked before and there ARE valid answers... for several years ago, which are no longer correct (or the "best" answers). I think they're over-moderating the site. It's a shame because it's MUCH better than what was before.
- alchemyunited 11y ago
  I'll go to SO for answers, but the "culture" of the "community" nullifies by desire to participate. I want to in theory. The reality is it's not worth the friction.
james-watson 11y ago
This sounds my daily regimen of using Ubuntu on my laptop.
Tiksi 11y ago
Or better yet, finding a forum post from a decade ago you made and replied to with "nvm, figured it out" and nothing else.

franciscop 11y ago

"So you did a workaround" I always answer my own questions if no answer was given and I found a workaround/hack to solve it. Not for myself, but chances are that in few years, if I search for the same question I'll find my own.

Keyframe 11y ago

I had a guy, on stackoverflow, commenting condescendingly on my question (or was it an answer, can't remember) that I was wrong and I should edit my post with his answer instead. All would be well if it wasn't on a 6 year old post at the time, and he was wrong. Ah, stackoverflow - what happened to you? It was fine and dandy when it was all loose. Now you ask a question and it's immediately flagged for various reasons. I've noticed that a lot in programming (I'm not actively programming anymore). It's always fun until the entropy of the rigidness comes in.

SmirkingRevenge 11y ago
I really hate that. I'd say at least half of the questions/answers I come across are closed flagged as vague, or whatever but at the same time, were incredibly informative, useful and exactly what I was looking for. The SO moderators need to chillax a bit.
arsenide 11y ago
The one time I posted a question on SO, it got flagged as duplicate and there were links to multiple other questions that were not even remotely the same to mine. Even more so, the tagged questions were not even mutually the same! It took two hours to carefully craft my question just to have it immediately shot down. It is needless to say I have not posted again since.
- thenomad 11y ago
  Yup. If I post anything on SO or related sites it's because I hope to get an answer before the question is inevitably closed. I just assume that my question won't fit their guidelines, regardless of what it is, these days.
- GFischer 11y ago
  Sometimes the problem with Stack Overflow is different: the question has been asked before and there ARE valid answers... for several years ago, which are no longer correct (or the "best" answers). I think they're over-moderating the site. It's a shame because it's MUCH better than what was before.
alchemyunited 11y ago
I'll go to SO for answers, but the "culture" of the "community" nullifies by desire to participate. I want to in theory. The reality is it's not worth the friction.

james-watson 11y ago

This sounds my daily regimen of using Ubuntu on my laptop.

Tiksi 11y ago

Or better yet, finding a forum post from a decade ago you made and replied to with "nvm, figured it out" and nothing else.