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I was an active user once, but got tired and bored by the recent flood of 'questions' that are best answered by "Learn how to use a debugger" or "RTFM". I'm esp
by zvrba 14y ago
I was an active user once, but got tired and bored by the recent flood of 'questions' that are best answered by "Learn how to use a debugger" or "RTFM". I'm especially annoyed by people pasting a rather large chunk of code with a vague description of the problem and expect others to debug it for them.
I even have moderator privileges, but I don't have the time or desire to bother anymore...
I also started a discussion on meta-SO about "fix my code" questions with a concrete proposal [1], but didn't get anywhere. The most operational (and upvoted) answer/comment there was that the "close question" system was intended for this and that no other mechanism was needed. Well and nice, but maybe we'd then also need a filter that would filter-out questions with 2 or more votes to close. (You could still opt-in to see these questions, by they shouldn't be on the frontpage by default.)
[1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/122951/sanction-users-dumping-code-and-requesting-debugging http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/122951/sanction-user...