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> Someone at Hacker News expressed a common experience for many programmers (experienced or not) when trying to participate on Stack Overflow. Okay... > 4 — R

by V-2 10y ago

> Someone at Hacker News expressed a common experience for many programmers (experienced or not) when trying to participate on Stack Overflow. Okay... > 4 — Respond to comment about a missing semicolon that got deleted when I was cutting/pasting/formatting my code. (Despite the error msg making it clear that the missing semicolon isn’t the issue) Who cares. I would just ignore this. > Duplicate answer person complains that their entry was posted first. I advise them that the timestamp indicates the other poster was first and they reply that it is a time zone bug. Yes, very "common experience" ;) Anyway, who cares? I wouldn't waste my time on such an idiotic argument at all > 10 — Check back one more time and see that someone has downvoted my question > 11 — Email the mods to get the downvote removed Oh for the love of God, who cares??? So it got downvoted, big deal, why do you need to bother the mods about it... (Did you wonder how they can get cranky sometimes?) Some people really should chill out, or consider themselves lucky for having way too much free time on their hands

shagie 10y ago
If someone grabs the code to try to reproduce the error and gets unrelated sytanx errors, that's their time wasted. The comment about the error helps others from wasting their time too... until the problem is fixed. As there is a taboo of modifying someone else's code, this is best done with a comment and hope the OP will fix it.
- V-2 10y ago
  Yeah, well, that's a good point too. That's another possibility. At any rate, whether the reason for someone to point out a missing semicolon is because they couldn't run the code straight away, or only because they didn't bother to read the question carefully - I fail to see why either scenario would be specific to StackOverflow and its peculiar community. Surely on any QA site in existence you could come across someone acting on either of these possible reasons??

by V-2 10y ago

shagie 10y ago

If someone grabs the code to try to reproduce the error and gets unrelated sytanx errors, that's their time wasted. The comment about the error helps others from wasting their time too... until the problem is fixed. As there is a taboo of modifying someone else's code, this is best done with a comment and hope the OP will fix it.

V-2 10y ago
Yeah, well, that's a good point too. That's another possibility. At any rate, whether the reason for someone to point out a missing semicolon is because they couldn't run the code straight away, or only because they didn't bother to read the question carefully - I fail to see why either scenario would be specific to StackOverflow and its peculiar community. Surely on any QA site in existence you could come across someone acting on either of these possible reasons??