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Not only that but SO in general is a rather bad source for programming advice - at least for beginners. What you generally see on SO happening: - Statements a

Not only that but SO in general is a rather bad source for programming advice - at least for beginners. What you generally see on SO happening: - Statements are being marked as "correct" even though they did not answer the question. It happens all the time that people as a Cocoa/OS X related question and get a iOS/UIKit answer which is then marked as correct. - Wrong answers are marked as correct all the time. - There are a couple of people who reformat my answers on SO all the time. They add emphasis, reformat my code/paragraphs etc. I don't know why they are doing it - probably to get a couple of points easily. This is so annoying. - It seems to me that collective intelligence sometimes does not produce the best answers... My friend and myself often begin our days by telling us about funny "answers" on SO, how we tried to argue but then got "overruled" by the majority even though the majority is wrong. This is probably not the right place to rant about SO...

Udo 13y ago
> They add emphasis, reformat my code/paragraphs etc. That's the reason I left SO while still in my noob phase - they'd make really strange changes, such as adding typos or removing paragraph breaks. And it's obvious why, too: yes, they get points for it and their name is now right next to the answer. I also found they had generally insane amounts of karma. Yeah, I really don't get SO, for lots of reasons.
- insteadof 13y ago
  No, you don't get any points for making edits unless you're under 2000, and even then it has to be robo-approved blindly by three other users.
  - LinaLauneBaer 13y ago
    No matter why some users do this: It sucks. I mean I am the one giving the answer - I am the expert. It should be the expert who decides which term/sentence should be emphasised and which don't. I have nothing against correcting my bad english but when it comes to the content or formatting I don't want to be messed with it unless you want me to leave.

Udo 13y ago

> They add emphasis, reformat my code/paragraphs etc. That's the reason I left SO while still in my noob phase - they'd make really strange changes, such as adding typos or removing paragraph breaks. And it's obvious why, too: yes, they get points for it and their name is now right next to the answer. I also found they had generally insane amounts of karma. Yeah, I really don't get SO, for lots of reasons.

insteadof 13y ago
No, you don't get any points for making edits unless you're under 2000, and even then it has to be robo-approved blindly by three other users.
- LinaLauneBaer 13y ago
  No matter why some users do this: It sucks. I mean I am the one giving the answer - I am the expert. It should be the expert who decides which term/sentence should be emphasised and which don't. I have nothing against correcting my bad english but when it comes to the content or formatting I don't want to be messed with it unless you want me to leave.