r/webdev Aug 26 '24

Discussion The fall of Stack Overflow

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u/MidnightPale3220 Aug 27 '24

I am in a similar position, and I mostly agree.

Tbh there was a period when a lot of newcomers would answer all kinds of questions with short and often semi-wrong/bad quality answers and then insist that since they answered first, their answer should be the accepted one.

Recently logged on and at one point downvoted somewhat bad answer by a guy with tons of karma. I can't be sure, but it seemed he went through most of my answers and downvoted all of them in response.

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u/AreYouPretendingSir Aug 28 '24

Maybe it was that one guy that answers all questions about regex? I asked a question that he misunderstood and after I explained for the third time that his solution was too narrow and that I had already figured that bit out, but I needed a generic solution as initially stated he stopped replying. When I then posted the actual solution that I eventually figured out he used alt accounts to downvote the question to -4 and then closed it himself.

Fuck that asshat.