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The odd thing is that I really tried to help people for a while on Stack Overflow but if you answer somebody's question you rarely get an accepted answer or eve
by dep_b 3y ago
The odd thing is that I really tried to help people for a while on Stack Overflow but if you answer somebody's question you rarely get an accepted answer or even any reply at all. "Sorry buddy, that didn't work" or anything. Lots of people just dump and abandon their questions.
Most of my reputation gained there is because I answered my own answer and ironically - just once - copied a solution from a thread on GitHub and pasted it there.
- xnorswap 3y agoAlmost all my reputation is from a question [1] that I just happened to see and answer before anyone could close it as "bad quality" or "duplicate". Had I been a minute or two later I suspect it would have been closed as poor quality. I only spotted it by pure chance because I had just wondered the same thing before having a "duh" moment when I realised it was a really simple solution to what sounds complicated (but isn't). So I was able to interpret the "real" question and answer it. But, as you say, never a bit of feedback from the question asker. No acceptance, just abandonment. It just slowly gathers karma, around 10 per month for ~10 years. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27607516/sql-join-with-composite-primary-key/27607549#27607549 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27607516/sql-join-with-c...