StackOverflowReviews 76

First of all you will get downvote because you are not using English, not even mention other questions that looks simple, it doesn't show the downvoter's name
Secondly all the questions, comments and answers in it are useless and worthless, all are $#*!ed students who consider themselves as some computer genius, if you have a job and you still hang around in this site you should get fired

I hope that person, who gave me a downvote, whose reality is that they can be somebody who is qualified to put down others, so that they won't have time bothering strangers at the Internet

Well, every time when I search for a coding problems, this site just shows me question and answer which are totally bs for the problems I met, most of them are unrelated of course, I just can't accept that when a question and answer is so exactly the problem I met, with a lot of upvotes, but it doesn't literally help at all in fact
Well, so far so fine, I will ask by myself when I meet sth, but when it comes to me, I write a question clearfully and post, sure I got my answer, but I also got some downvotes, am I happy? Surely not, just who th are those worst skunkiest anonymous bs? Who gave them the right to downvote whatever they don't like? Are they genius who have already known everything immediately after born? Just why do they have the right to downvote whatever they don't like at any aspects they ever think, as "This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful", so subjectively, I mean maybe it's just because it's not the question they need or they can make money with, or those bs have known it a little early before, however you can't be sure that someone else, even though only one people, may need it badly, isn't it the common sense for every one?
And since that, stackoverflow, you have so poor diversity of questions stack, and so worst quality of answers, why do you even allow those vicious anonymous bs downvotes exist to somehow dictate an open forum? At least show us the downvoters' usernames to let us know just how few questions they have asked or how bs that themselves or their lives truly literally awfully really are!
The one star is for the opposed opinions here against stackoverflow, you are undoubtedly the heroes or heroines

Some of the people is just commenting, not solving the problem. The moderator also is bias, If you are newbie I think you have no place to be here.

Rather than some people at Stackoverflow AI doesn't judge your questions or, worse, make you feel like a complete idiot for asking.
It just provides you with code that can either help you to find the right direction or solve your coding problem right away.

As many have pointed out, you ask a question which isn't perfect, it immediately gets closed. You make the corrections they ask for, nobody ever bothers to open it. So you make another, better post, this time it's perfect! Nope, 'This is a duplicate', instantly closed. Now the old one is closed and being ignored and the new one is closed. If you ask, politely, what the problem is, you just get condescending replies explaining that your question wasn't good enough. You ask more questions, you're just ignored. Treated like dirt for asking a question basically.

It's a disgrace since it's hard to find help anywhere else because this place is where most people go. So us noobs are forever stuck. 24 hours later and I'm still searching for alternative forums and trying to fix the problem myself but not getting very far. This is a huge block to learning.

Short Review:

StackOverflow has minimal assistive capabilities. The users on it will mock you for not knowing something. They will then give you 'answers' without explaining how it works. And then they will have you bullied off the site via negative reports. Alongside some good old fashion mockery of course.

I would not suggest the use of this site.

In-Depth Review:

I have asked three questions on StackOverflow in the past month. Resulting responses led me to believe that it is is a helpful site, but it has ineffective moderation. This causes it to be an ineffective site.

My first question, asked to assist in a personal project, got deactivated immediately. After reading their response, I understood how to do better. "Your question is unclear, did not provide enough information, and is now not posted." Understandable, I asked it without any editing or true thought, so I began to edit. After ten to fifteen minutes of editing, I had a new question. It provided information and explanation well enough to recreate the issue. After grammar checking and making sure everything was right, I was ready. I submitted it, and waited for my question to be re-opened. I waited for over an hour before I relented to the system and removed the question. Shortly after this, as I tried crafting a new question, I learned that I has a temporary ban on my account. No longer was I allowed to ask questions until my time was up. Only a day, so I waited, eager to get an answer to my question.

Question two was a revised version of my first question. Much more detailed, backed with hours of attempts to fix it. That day allowed me to have time to test and retest. I was able to provide much more information than previous attempts. All was ready, and I submitted the question with confidence. This time, I would not have to retry, this was it, my answer. I did not get removed, but neither did I get an answer. The first 'answer' was in the form of a comment. A link to another question that had an answer. How useful, and so fast! But no, the question that the link led to was not the same as mine, as described by my question. After a few comments back and forth, I ignored the comment and comment sender. The next answers were all based on prior knowledge of coding, something I have none of, and so helped little. Finally, I got an answer and explanation that helped. Success! If you don't count the hours of people mocking me in pseudo-helpful comments and answers. Or if you don't count the standing -2 report my question has. Oh joy.

My final question was a debugging question, my program was ending before it was suppose to. In short, my code was not completing, and I needed it to or the system would not work. I supplied the part of code that was ending my program, and asked for help on how to fix it. Alongside it, I provided other bits of code, explaining how I tried fixing it. Along with that, I supplied how I attempted to go around the issue, and other bits of information. Within moments, I received 3 negative reports, and I received a notice. "Your question is unclear, did not provide enough information, and is now not posted." The same as question one, almost to the letter. [Question 1 and Question 3 removal reasons edited to make simpler]. To end off this circus act, I removed the question, and received a notification. You've earned the 'Peer Pressure' badge. I received an award for removing a question that got -3 reports. That is insanity.

In all, I have the need to suggest in a strong manner the following:
- If you use StackOverflow, be careful to follow their rules.
- I would not suggest using this site. It is full of toxicity.
- This report comes from my desire to help everyone have a helpful experience on the internet.

To close up this review, I would like to clarify one more thing. Not everyone on StackOverflow is a toxic or inadequate. I wouldn't say anyone is inadequate, but their service is. Please do not spread hate to these individual users, but exercise caution when using it. Stay safe, and stay informed!

I was on Stack Overflow for 15 years and had 12.5k reputation. Then some $#*!heads piled on me with disrespectful uninformed downvotes, I told them they were $#*!heads, and now I don't have an account. You have to be allowed to tell people when they're being $#*!heads. Otherwise a site can't be considered reliable.

Many people know stackoverflow. If you are searching for some solution, e.g., in the area of software development, you will most probably find a good answer.

But, it is totally different, if you interact with the stackoverflow community.

Many many high rep people and especially moderators are more than super toxic. Arrogant like hell and completely manic. Especially, most moderators are totally unhelpful.

This is a result of the gamification system used at Stackoverflow. This is even mentioned in the corresponding Wikipedia entry.

So, you can gain reputation by asking or answering questions. At some point in time, you will have a high rep. And, obviously some people cannot cope with getting more and more reputation and beeing a high rep user. They are not mature enough to handle this situation. And go crazy. Especially the moderators, who are elected, feel then even more powerful. Those moderators love to play power games. High rep people even feel like curators and think that they somehow are a part of the SO company.

All this leads to elitist and arrogant and super toxic behaviour, especially against new users.

The Stackoverflow company made a smart decision by implementing this gamification system. They are breeding such lunatic guys to do their work. And in the end, they sell ads and earn money with other services.

And the stupid mods and high rep users, do not even recognize that, becuase there are in their high reputation heaven and feeling sooooo good.

There are even people addicted to this game. You can self ban yourself for a period.

The result of all this is a brutal and extremely toxic behaviour, especially against new users. If a new user dares to ask a question, then after a short time downvoting starts and nasty comments, even contradicting ones are comming in. Unhelpful, no respect, expecting that everybody has 30 years programming experience. Closing and deleting questions after really short time periods.

They call it democratic if TRHEE people can close a question. And if you look, then there are always the same poeple who downvote and close questions. If you have a high rep, then you can see this. So, 10 manic guys can and do destroy a complete tag. And that is what is happening daily.

SO claims that they want to keep their pages clean. But then, why not create a newbie area? Or, allow closing of question only after 1 day? Or stop the comments, where most toxic behaviour can be seen. Show, who downvoted. Or allow downvoting only with comment.

As a summary. SO is good for finding answers, but more than extremely bad for askig questions or interact with the community.

P.S. There is a simple method to stop this downvoting orgies. Upvoting. Do upvote. Get some 20 rep and then you can upvote 40 questions per day. So, goto downvoted questions and upvote them. Everyday 40. If only 10 people would do this for one tag, I would love to see the stupid face of the lunatics.

I asked a question about a topic. This was my first question. I made a post with my error message and all of my code. It got downvoted and closed because they didn't had enough information.
I wanted to submit another question but now I am blocked for a day to submit questions.

I won't recommend StackOverflow for beginning developers since they are too strict to me.

Stack overflow deletes my questions every time, saying I need to put more details when in fact I put pictures, and explain very clearly. They just don't want to say they don't have an answer. They have truly fell off.

So many unecessary rules, not beginner friendly, never received useful advice. Don't recommend this website.

It's easy to get your account locked and be blocked from posting questions. If questions aren't presented in a perfect way prepare for an onslaught of negativity.

Before writing a question on stackoverflow you should think twice if you really want to invest your time - stackoverflow-moderators LOVE to close your questions if they don't fit their strict rules 150%.

Some of them are unreasonably arrogant. Even when i solved my problem by myself and posted as the answer, someone downvoted it, because it was not in the format that he likes!

I asked just a question about possible little task automation! Also this is the first ever question that I'm putting there! Also it got downvoted for no reason! Also my question was edited quickly (removed the word PLEASE - I wanted to be polite). I also received a comment from someone (extremely high reputation person). Comment content: link to a basic instructions - no any answer to my quiestion. A YES or NO would be just fine for me. So people... don't waste your time on that website!

Great source for programming answer on just about any language, however, if you are just starting to learn programming I would not advise coming to this site to post any form of question. The community is not welcoming, granted there are few that are willing to help, but the vast majority take pride in berating the post owner.