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> But the UX of the site is basically "post a question, get modded to shit" now. I'm sympathetic - but have you ever noticed, when people complain about their

> But the UX of the site is basically "post a question, get modded to shit" now. I'm sympathetic - but have you ever noticed, when people complain about their questions being closed unfairly, how rarely they provide links to the questions? If I'd posted 5 great questions, they'd all been unfairly closed, and I wanted to convince other people that was the case, I'd be linking to them - why wouldn't I present the primary evidence?

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
Ask, and ye shall receive: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34722910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34722910 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34887968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34887968
- Izkata 4y ago
  The main post[0] you go on about in there is a badly formatted question: It's not self-contained, and relies entirely on external links. It doesn't surprise me it got close votes. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75361518/accessing-an-ios-url-scheme-at-runtime https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75361518/accessing-an-io...
  - joshuaissac 4y ago
    > It's not self-contained, and relies entirely on external links. The question does not rely on external links. The links just provide optional additional context (about how to use a custom URL scheme and what DRY is). The question has the ios, xcode and swift tags, so even without the links, it is pretty clear what the asker is looking for.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
    Hey, no big deal. It's all good. SO has made it clear that they don't want "my kind" participating, so ... I won’t go, where I’m not wanted. Life’s too short. That question was a bit of a "trial balloon." I'd pretty much written SO off. * pop * Problem solved. Just S’s and G’s, might want to take a gander at some of the other (over 100) questions I’ve asked. They are not all perfect, so there’s plenty of ammo.
- zerocrates 4y ago
  I don't see what's not to like about the interaction on that URL scheme question (apart from the close vote), it looks like you got a perfectly good answer in 10 minutes. Am I just missing the condescension here? Maybe something that's been removed or I'm not looking in the right place? SO definitely has issues but I just don't see it on this one.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
    It's a matter of tone, and how the question was answered. I know it could be different. It has been different. NBD. I won't be going to that drywell for water, anymore, so it's fine. I was dealing with something, yesterday, that is exactly the type of thing that I would have gone to SO for, in the old days (customizing the Contacts Editor), but I don't really feel like dealing with the agita, for what would really be nothing more than a little vanity chrome on my app. I'll probably figure it out, if I really want to. I always do; it just takes time. What SO has done (in the past), was give me actionable and correct answers, very quickly. It hasn't done that for me, for a while.
slavik81 4y ago
That may be true, but the problem is real. It's not their question (nor mine), but here's an example I came across a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21178182 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21178182 Unfortunately, there's no way to vote against closing a question. All you can do is vote to reopen it after it's closed.
lenkite 4y ago
IMHO question closure should be a vote left to the community and not one angry moderator. Where people browsing questions can vote on whether it is a complete duplicate or still provides value to the reader.

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago

Ask, and ye shall receive: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34722910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34722910 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34887968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34887968

Izkata 4y ago
The main post[0] you go on about in there is a badly formatted question: It's not self-contained, and relies entirely on external links. It doesn't surprise me it got close votes. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75361518/accessing-an-ios-url-scheme-at-runtime https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75361518/accessing-an-io...
- joshuaissac 4y ago
  > It's not self-contained, and relies entirely on external links. The question does not rely on external links. The links just provide optional additional context (about how to use a custom URL scheme and what DRY is). The question has the ios, xcode and swift tags, so even without the links, it is pretty clear what the asker is looking for.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
  Hey, no big deal. It's all good. SO has made it clear that they don't want "my kind" participating, so ... I won’t go, where I’m not wanted. Life’s too short. That question was a bit of a "trial balloon." I'd pretty much written SO off. * pop * Problem solved. Just S’s and G’s, might want to take a gander at some of the other (over 100) questions I’ve asked. They are not all perfect, so there’s plenty of ammo.
zerocrates 4y ago
I don't see what's not to like about the interaction on that URL scheme question (apart from the close vote), it looks like you got a perfectly good answer in 10 minutes. Am I just missing the condescension here? Maybe something that's been removed or I'm not looking in the right place? SO definitely has issues but I just don't see it on this one.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
  It's a matter of tone, and how the question was answered. I know it could be different. It has been different. NBD. I won't be going to that drywell for water, anymore, so it's fine. I was dealing with something, yesterday, that is exactly the type of thing that I would have gone to SO for, in the old days (customizing the Contacts Editor), but I don't really feel like dealing with the agita, for what would really be nothing more than a little vanity chrome on my app. I'll probably figure it out, if I really want to. I always do; it just takes time. What SO has done (in the past), was give me actionable and correct answers, very quickly. It hasn't done that for me, for a while.

slavik81 4y ago

That may be true, but the problem is real. It's not their question (nor mine), but here's an example I came across a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21178182 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21178182 Unfortunately, there's no way to vote against closing a question. All you can do is vote to reopen it after it's closed.

lenkite 4y ago

IMHO question closure should be a vote left to the community and not one angry moderator. Where people browsing questions can vote on whether it is a complete duplicate or still provides value to the reader.