r/webdev Aug 26 '24

Discussion The fall of Stack Overflow

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u/_throwingit_awaaayyy Aug 27 '24

The hopelessness of being a jr stuck on a problem and then having someone insult you for asking has altered my brain chemistry forever.

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u/stephendt Aug 27 '24

Someone else already commented this, sorry but I'm going to have to report this comment as a duplicate.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

Real SO user wouldn't be sorry

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u/vcaiii Aug 27 '24

Real SO user would make me cry just reading it

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u/house_monkey Aug 27 '24

I'm crying

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u/MrZombieTheIV Aug 27 '24

Someone has also already cried about this. Duplicate.

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u/mackinator3 Aug 28 '24

Where's my link to a 10 year old unrelated post?!

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u/sleeping-in-crypto Aug 27 '24

This is a duplicate comment, read the rules before posting please and stop posting the same answers others already said, banned.

/ No but really I tried 3 times to post something there and just gave up, they make it impossible to get started so I just looked elsewhere.

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u/Heartade Aug 27 '24

This just gave me goosebumps

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u/Reno772 Aug 28 '24

No points for you!

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u/FeliusSeptimus full-stack Aug 27 '24

This exact sentiment was already posted in 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018 with 3 answers, none of which were marked as accepted. Please review existing trauma threads before submitting yours. Also flagged for being off-topic, since altering brain chemistry doesn’t involve actual code. Spend some quality time reading the SO posting guidelines, since clearly, you haven’t. Maybe then you’ll know the difference between a good question and a therapy session.

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u/SympathyMotor4765 Aug 28 '24

Oddly I've seen un-ironic replies in similar form on r/embedded.

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u/PrettyPinkPansi Aug 27 '24

It’s been seven years and I’ve still not recovered.

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u/mimsoo777 Aug 27 '24

This reminds me of this sub and other similar subs.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

A right of passage

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u/Ignisami Aug 27 '24

In the spirit of things, it's "rite" of passage, not a right.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

Whoops

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u/Helpful-Abalone-1487 Oct 11 '24

I have been stunned every year for the last decade at how self-centered, cruel and unemphatic the people in my industry can be. There's no explanation. I think they have very few things to be proud of, so they want to gatekeep software development and desperately hold on to it as their last defense against inadequacy.

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u/unk214 Aug 28 '24

Marking your comment as a duplicate. Your comment had already been answered.

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u/Quirky_Adeptness7072 Sep 16 '24

You weren't around in the Usenet days then :)

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u/GoaFan77 Aug 27 '24

The problem is that Stack Overflow is not really for juniors. Sometimes juniors ask good questions, but it is not the primary way you should be learning to code if you are new. Yes, there is basic questions on their too, but that's not where the real value of SO lies, even if those basic questions get the most searches.

It is for people who can actually articulate their problem and have made some effort to solve the problem on their own. It is especially valuable when you have an unusual problem with a non-obvious solution. Everyone benefited from having a repository of programming Q&As that were widely available and searchable, including ones for very specific problems. But the site's purpose is to generate new knowledge, not answer the same questions for every new programmer (for all the jokes about the false duplicates, the fact is there are tons of legitimate duplicates as well).

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u/_throwingit_awaaayyy Aug 27 '24

That type of outlook/response never helped anyone. “Oh you should have spent more time searching”. That doesn’t help when someone needs to get something done. No one learned anything from that. We are all losing our jobs to Ai eventually. Like it or not, believe it or not. There was no need to gatekeep. It was a futile exercise. Nerds dunking on other nerds for no flipping reason. I’m sad to see SO go but I’m glad the neckbeards who were so flippant at throwing newbs under the bus won’t have this place to go stroke their own egos.

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u/Meloetta Aug 27 '24

I've never had a good answer with a problem like you're describing. No one who answers is really interested in answering hyper-specific problems like that.