Timeline for What about the community is "toxic" to new users?
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| Nov 26, 2023 at 8:29 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | @Teemu it's more like, imagine if the pull request system were opened to the general public, and everyone was trying to use it to report bugs instead of using the issue tracker (and, of course, not providing steps to reproduce). | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 12:42 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 25, 2020 at 21:28 | comment | added | Andreas Haferburg | @NathanTuggy Downvotes for answers I don't see too much as a problem, especially on meta. I quite expected to be downvoted here. What I find annoying on SO is downvotes on questions. What did you mean by the timeline thing? To me, drive-by means that the downvoter doesn't explain why they downvoted. The issue is not that I question the downvote. But as the asker, it leaves you with feelings of helplessness and being out of control, because there's nothing you can do about it. And it also kind of implies that your question was so terrible that you don't even deserve a comment. | |
| Jan 25, 2020 at 9:37 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | @GwenKillerby: Downvotes on a meta answer that mentions drive-by downvoting prove it's correct? Really? I find the alternative hypothesis — that the downvoters disagreed with the answer or found it unhelpfully worded — to be much more compelling. (Edit: It's also fair to point out that, as seen from the timeline, the second downvote came in at least two hours after the answer was posted. That's not "drive-by" by any reasonable standard.) | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 11:57 | comment | added | Teemu | I'm not emotional, but sometimes there are literally gargabe characters to circumvent the requirement of the explanation of the decent lenght = ). I'm not walking away from these, I have been voting to close, and I will vote to close, as long as it is possible. If there's even a small sign of a try, and nobody else haven't commented it yet, I most often put a couple of words to explain what is wrong. But don't expect me to be hypocrat, I'll say what's wrong with the post strightly, did OP liked it or not. That doesn't mean rude wording, but not hyperpolite wording either. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 11:43 | comment | added | Andreas Haferburg | @Teemu I do understand people being frustrated with users who don't understand how SO works. But if you see a low quality question, and you don't have the patience to explain why it's bad, walk away. Any other behavior is toxic and gatekeeping. You're so emotional about it that you call a question garbage. You do realize that it was a human who wrote that, right? Lower the pitchfork... But I don't think that is the biggest problem, I don't care too much about new users. What I do care about is alienating veteran users, because they're the ones capable of contributing quality content. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 10:39 | comment | added | Teemu | Yeah ... The title is "What's wrong with my code", and the body of the question contains a bunch of badly formatted code only. Letting this garbage freely flow in makes sure the "nice users" are flowing out faster than you make your friendly comments to those posts. Posting such questions shows total lack of respect the voluteer work the community members do. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 5:11 | history | edited | KorvinStarmast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2020 at 4:28 | comment | added | GwenKillerby | wow, great answer! The downvotes you got totally make your point valid: it proves the existence of drive by downgrading. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 0:17 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Copy edited. Expanded ("HN" is too obscure in this context).
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| Jan 23, 2020 at 21:49 | history | answered | Andreas Haferburg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |