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>Stack Overflow or Hacker News Woah, those seem like two completely different things. Is it just me, or is SO like 100x more gate-keepery than HN? On HN it s
by floxy 5y ago
>Stack Overflow or Hacker News
Woah, those seem like two completely different things. Is it just me, or is SO like 100x more gate-keepery than HN? On HN it seems like you have to go pretty far off topic to even get more than a single down vote (or maybe get into a pretty heated or political discussion to get flagged). But it seems like SO has an endless supply of people nitpicking on things like the form of your question, so that a obscure/difficult question will fade away before anyone can even get a chance to answer it. I'd say SO is some form of malignant fallacy #1, where instead of just tolerating off-putting behavior, it actively selects for busybodies looking for drama.
- l0b0 5y agoHaving contributed for many years now, IME there's probably less drama on SO (on average) than on HN. Sure, some people get disproportionately defensive when other people demand more information to solve their problem, or when people point out that (given the context available to the reader) there is probably an X-Y problem at work. OTOH, some people have seen the exact same question in so many guises that they crack, sometimes to hilarious effect[1], but often resulting in being curt. Overt rudeness, though, is less common than almost any other website I frequent, including many popular FOSS bug trackers, forums, and the like. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/96588 https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/96588