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SO has recently been flooded by people who create an account and post questions in the "fix my problem" style, often also pasting a bunch of their defunct code.
by zvrba 15y ago
SO has recently been flooded by people who create an account and post questions in the "fix my problem" style, often also pasting a bunch of their defunct code. There are also questions that would be more appropriate for rent-a-coder.
All in all, I'm getting annoyed and considering to leave the community.
- lambda 15y agoYeah, there are bad questions. Always have been, always will be. Sometimes, I take the time to explain to people how to make their question better (reduce the code down to a minimal example, and explain what you've already tried being the two most important pieces of advice). Sometimes I just downvote or vote to close if it's bad enough. You have the freedom to chose the questions that you pay attention to. If you're feeling burned out by bad questions, just skip them and keep looking for good ones; or go elsewhere and do something else for a while.
- shaggyfrog 15y agoIf you don't have enough rep yet to vote-to-close yourself, flag 'em for attention, and the rest of us will bring down the Close Hammer.
- spolsky 15y ago"Fix my code" questions are considered "too localized" and should be closed as such.
- zvrba 15y agoI dare suggesting that this is a larger problem and trying to close individual questions is not a scalable approach.
- Piskvorrr 15y agoYup. As recently as 2008, in fact ;) It's just a question of scale - the community gets larger, so you get more of everything.