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I'm sorry for being "that person", but I will push back on your assumptions. It seems to me that your issue arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of Stack

I'm sorry for being "that person", but I will push back on your assumptions. It seems to me that your issue arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of Stack Overflow's purpose as a platform. As I understand it, Stack Overflow (both the management and the community) generally don't care that much (nor should they) about an individual person asking a question, but rather they care about building a high-quality Q&A resource with questions and answers that should serve many thousands of people who would come to view that page in the future. As such, answering a poor question (unclear explanation, bad code, unusual use of an idiom, etc.) as it is written, while helping the person who asked it, would likely confuse future readers and eventually cause more harm than good. The pedants/nitpickers are thus serving a crucial purpose in caring more about the long-term value of the Q&A resource than the individual question-asker; a question asker who is unwilling to implement feedback and improve the question (within the bounds of reason) is not a valuable community member, and their questions might be deleted for the benefit of others.

thomastjeffery 4y ago
You just rephrased OP's post. OP is aware that StackOverflow is failing to meet their needs. That's the entire point. If the ultimate goal is to serve StackOverflow itself, that may be valuable; but it still sucks for users.
- falcor84 4y ago
  >still sucks for users The way I see it, in Stack Overflow's model, the people asking questions are not the users, they are the contributors. The actual users are the folks coming from web searches (or howdoi) later on. As some other comments here said, if the OP wants a platform where they would be the customer, they would probably need to pay for that. And as for my recommendation to the OP based on that: codementor.io
Krisjohn 4y ago
The problem isn't that you're that person, it's that 90% of the responses are that person. I find general forums to give answers that don't answer the question. I find product-specific forums provided by the vendor as a level of customer support, to be much better. I guess that's not always a thing for programming though.

thomastjeffery 4y ago

You just rephrased OP's post. OP is aware that StackOverflow is failing to meet their needs. That's the entire point. If the ultimate goal is to serve StackOverflow itself, that may be valuable; but it still sucks for users.

falcor84 4y ago
>still sucks for users The way I see it, in Stack Overflow's model, the people asking questions are not the users, they are the contributors. The actual users are the folks coming from web searches (or howdoi) later on. As some other comments here said, if the OP wants a platform where they would be the customer, they would probably need to pay for that. And as for my recommendation to the OP based on that: codementor.io

Krisjohn 4y ago

The problem isn't that you're that person, it's that 90% of the responses are that person. I find general forums to give answers that don't answer the question. I find product-specific forums provided by the vendor as a level of customer support, to be much better. I guess that's not always a thing for programming though.