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You are likely falling foul of three possibilities... 1 - Making your questions far to specific, so nobody else could ever benefit from seeing the answer to th
by PhilWright 10y ago
You are likely falling foul of three possibilities...
1 - Making your questions far to specific, so nobody else could ever benefit from seeing the answer to that question in the future. These tend to be down voted very aggressively. So you need to try and find a more generic way of asking the question so that others might be helped by the answer as well.
2 - Just plain dumb questions. Such as 'I needz site like Facebook. Hope to make? Helpz'. If you are doing that and do not understand why it is a bad question then I probably cannot explain it to you.
3 - Making you question so that it looks like you are lazy and getting others to do the work for you. For example, questions that look like someone's homework. No one wants to spend time answering if the questioner has obviously made no effort to solve it themselves. Stackoverflow should be the last resort after several hours of trying.
The site is basically made up of professionals and that often determines if the question is considered too simple or not.
- bigbonch 10y agoHe asked for alternative websites. You gave him the same kind of response he's getting on Stack Overflow that's prompting him to seek alternatives in the first place.
- Latty 10y agoAnd the answer is the alternatives all suck because they are filled with people asking rubbish questions. If you want a community of people ready to help you, maybe consider putting in enough effort to make them helping you easier.
- tasty_freeze 10y agoI highly disagree. His suggestion was helpful and not at all condescending. It could be wrong, or incomplete (there may be another reason why OP isn't getting traction), but that is very different from getting dumped on.
- soneca 10y ago4 - it is not his/her fault and Stack Overflow is hostile to new, junior developers. I would vote for this one as I personally feel the same way (and do not identify myself with neither of your 3 options)
- braveo 10y agoI'm not a junior developer and I rarely ask for anything on SO. I've just found it to be a shitty experience all around, and as someone else mentioned in this thread, people on that site are bullies.