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A bizarre problem I have had on SO is that, after years of gaining reputation into the 5 digits, now if I ask a question on a topic that is new to me, I often g
by hellofunk 10y ago
A bizarre problem I have had on SO is that, after years of gaining reputation into the 5 digits, now if I ask a question on a topic that is new to me, I often get the response that I should know better if I have a high reputation. It's weird. If I have my colleague ask the same question, a guy with much less reputation, the answers are helpful. It's as if the quality of the question is judged by how much the asker must already know. Which is ridiculous if you explore a lot of different technologies.
Then there are genuine trolls who, despite massive reputation, seem to have the sole goal of proving everyone wrong. It's also weird.
This image has never rung more true to me then when interacting with so many "power" users: http://i.imgur.com/Oy6mA.jpg?fb http://i.imgur.com/Oy6mA.jpg?fb
- oliwarner 10y agoNever feel afraid to take people to task for stupid comments, if only to point out that their comment only managed to waste both your time. I completely agree with you though. I find I have to be very defensive with my question asking these days. I spend time explaining what I've searched for. You still get people telling you it's so obvious a monkey could have found it, but there's generally less talk of me being lazy. Just stupid. FWIW I'm a moderator on another big SE site and I try to put those sorts of people in their place. It's completely counter productive to be so combative with question-askers... But some people just want to moan.