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What ticks me off on StackOverflow is changing my posts and attributing it to me. For instance, I ended a post with "Thank you for any help, I appreciate your
by exabrial 4y ago
What ticks me off on StackOverflow is changing my posts and attributing it to me.
For instance, I ended a post with "Thank you for any help, I appreciate your time". A overzealous moderator on a mission edited that and removed it. I added it back and told him that I'm polite in person and on the internet, and it's my desire to reflect that. That feedback was of course discarded and they locked the post.
So yeah, despite being top 5% in the world, I stopped answering questions on the stupid site.
- wendyshu 4y agoThat sentence is redundant noise on the page. Show your appreciation by upvoting answers instead.
- eYrKEC2 4y agoBeing polite is "noise" in the real world too. It just so happens that the noise serves to lubricate the interactions of humans by adding the frills of niceness and respect.
- exabrial 4y agoNo it's not. Being polite is human. It exists in every culture in some form or another. And besides, who are you to judge anyway?