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I suppose this is the one time where stackoverflow being a cesspool is actually useful. Any attempt to post malware would just be marked as duplicate and close

I suppose this is the one time where stackoverflow being a cesspool is actually useful. Any attempt to post malware would just be marked as duplicate and closed instantly

entuno 2y ago
I was refraining from making a comment that these would be easy to spot because they were actually being helpful and (apparently) answering the question..
tux3 2y ago
Only questions are closed as duplicates. Stackoverflow is strict and pedantic to the point of being very unfriendly to newbies, but it doesn't close things at random. If you want to criticize Stackoverflow, there's plenty of solid ground to do that. No need to say things that aren't.
- chx 2y ago
  > Stackoverflow is strict and pedantic to the point of being very unfriendly to newbies at what point do you stop being a newbie? I have been on SO for 14 years and have found "lately" or the last five or so years to be extraordinarily unfriendly. I am in the middle of solving a complex problem so I posit a question but it's stripped to bare bones to make it easier to answer -- and the answer is almost always is not what I seek but instead "why are you doing this". Aaaaargh. I would need to post War & Peace to make you understand why so I just go and delete the question when this happens which is too often. Example: https://stackoverflow.com/q/77202800/308851 https://stackoverflow.com/q/77202800/308851 lots of comments asking why I am doing this were deleted but downvote remains. I kept this one up for whatever reason although downvotes usually are enough to make me delete a question. My advice: if you can't help then stay away from the question. Alas, this likely won't reach the hopped-on-SO-power idiots but it's worth a try.
  - croemer 2y ago
    My strategy is to wait and see. Initially downvoted questions can become quite popular. The people doing the downvoting on new questions are a minority. Majority of traffic and votes comes over months from search engines.

I suppose this is the one time where stackoverflow being a cesspool is actually useful. Any attempt to post malware would just be marked as duplicate and closed instantly

entuno 2y ago

I was refraining from making a comment that these would be easy to spot because they were actually being helpful and (apparently) answering the question..

tux3 2y ago

Only questions are closed as duplicates. Stackoverflow is strict and pedantic to the point of being very unfriendly to newbies, but it doesn't close things at random. If you want to criticize Stackoverflow, there's plenty of solid ground to do that. No need to say things that aren't.

chx 2y ago
> Stackoverflow is strict and pedantic to the point of being very unfriendly to newbies at what point do you stop being a newbie? I have been on SO for 14 years and have found "lately" or the last five or so years to be extraordinarily unfriendly. I am in the middle of solving a complex problem so I posit a question but it's stripped to bare bones to make it easier to answer -- and the answer is almost always is not what I seek but instead "why are you doing this". Aaaaargh. I would need to post War & Peace to make you understand why so I just go and delete the question when this happens which is too often. Example: https://stackoverflow.com/q/77202800/308851 https://stackoverflow.com/q/77202800/308851 lots of comments asking why I am doing this were deleted but downvote remains. I kept this one up for whatever reason although downvotes usually are enough to make me delete a question. My advice: if you can't help then stay away from the question. Alas, this likely won't reach the hopped-on-SO-power idiots but it's worth a try.
- croemer 2y ago
  My strategy is to wait and see. Initially downvoted questions can become quite popular. The people doing the downvoting on new questions are a minority. Majority of traffic and votes comes over months from search engines.