StackOverflow

This site has so much potential. They limit the amount of questions you can ask and might even block you if your questions are received poorly. I ask a question that I truly need help with and people don't like it so I get punished for it? What sense does that make? The following scenario sums up this website:
Me: *posts a question about code I researched tirelessly and didn't find an answer to.
*Some know it all comments*: hhmm, why did you do this and that? Your question isn't well informed blah blah blah, *no real help given*.
Me: Well, Einstein, If i knew the answer to those questions I wouldn't be here in the first place now would I? Thanks for nothing though...
In summary, almost everyone on here expects you to have 95% of the answer already so I definitely can't recommend any beginner programmers even attempt this website.

The community is just a bunch of heartless people, who just complain by saying things like "Oh, you haven't laid your question out this way, read the rules". It seems like they never know the answer, because they just skim over your question, and then complain. However, some people give you the answer and suggestions, while others just complain. I must say, I haven't got an answer for a good 2 months, instead just hateful comments.

HOWEVER, the solutions are very helpful at times. But, I would not recommend this site. I would recommend something like Codeproject, or Daniweb.

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

I tried to ask a specific question about a task I have to do, all was well within their question guidelines. However, people still downvoted my question. They also don't leave any comments, so you have no idea why they downvote your question. And if you have 15 downvotes, your question just gets deleted, just like that. What is that about?

It's the most stupid system I have ever seen. You would think that it was made for people to help others with their programming, but apparently it's not. The only answers you can find are on questions from about 5 years ago, nothing recent.

Anyway, the site and the users are horrible, you would be better of to just keep trying yourself and not wasting any time on this site.

This website is not welcoming, it is not for programmers who are learning a new language, it is not for starters. The people with high reputations there have these reputations from asking common questions years back when the website was new, and now about 1% of the users there decide who gets to be on the website and who doesn't.

It is not a welcoming community, and it shows the bad side of the industry where you'd be rebuked for asking silly questions, talked down to like you're an idiot with a rude and smart-assy tone.

I used a solution as a basis from a popular question and was initially pleased with the site.

However, I wouldn't even bother asking a question on this website! I spent days researching how to solve a problem before I decided to try asking on this site. I was downvoted within ten minutes and suggested an edit to change the order of words in a sentence. An hour later my question was blocked and I still have no idea why.

I posted the same question on a different forum and received some helpful guidance within hours.

So, I asked as a start Go developer a interesting question about a possible problem with the source code, and I've put code examples, and enough information about the memory leak I might have found, and tried to solve this, with no solution available, and thus I tried Stack Overflow for the first time.
Sadly, it was immediately responded with a non-answer that didn't help at all, and other people who seem to be "staff", have ridiculed my question, and when I "answered" on a existing question that was linked to from my original question, I was slammed down with downvotes. This platform is not social, people are pretty anti-social when it comes to new people, and I finally found a better response on Reddit. Too bad, I used Stack Overflow for my beginnings on GoLang, but with this experience, the site didn't help much.

I had tried to ask two questions 3 times. Two first times I got an answer which had answered my question, though not fully. Yet, all times my question was closed upon made up reasons and nobody in community could pin point the reason for it. Instead I got a lot of condescending, combative, entitled comments. Some of them coming even from top 0,01% people! Instead of answering a simple question, their egos get bruised that they can't gather points for an easy answer and abuse report function in order to close down your question. Automatic system will lock your question putting on hold. You edit it, but nobody will unlock your question.

This site is completely broken and doesn't work when asking any IT software related question which is at all complicated to answer. Stay away from this site at all costs, there are plenty of better alternatives to ask your questions. Community there is absolutely deluded and every time I go there I come out frustrated with no answers or helpful suggestions, only toxic jerks insulting me.

I would love for stack overflow to be this ideal, democratic system, in which people who have questions can ask them, and people who have answers can answer them.

Unfortunately, there are a million little illogical rules that make it a very complicated struggle to "simply" ask or answer questions on this website, as most users will spend a lot of time tediously criticising your questions instead of actually giving answers to it, and also because since you're new, you can't really do anything on the website like comment or vote whenever you feel it would not only help your situation, but also help other users.

From what I understand, it's because of the "points" system that they invented, whose only purpose is to create some sick hierarchy between "good" law-abiding users who spend hours on the website everyday, and "bad" users (the people who just want an answer to their questions. Bad people!).

I'm sorry, but giving "rewards" to people just because they use your website and blocking newcomers is probably the worst strategy in the internet age.

Don't trust stackoverflow. Be very careful when you copy and paste code from stackoverflow.

There are so many people on this website who don't deserve their score. They aren't knowledgeable at all.
1. Many posts don't answer the technical issue but they get well ranked which is a nonsense When it is technical it should be easy. Step 1, step 2, step 3. For example, when it comes to programming. Pieces of code can answer any questions.
2. Some contributors are rude and they answer "read the manual", however they get thumbs up. How is it possible?
3. Here is the most important, people who share brilliant ideas and answers are not rewarded. It is not normal to see brilliant answers at the bottom of the page.
4. Some people are arrogant and try to argue rather than being pro and get straight to the point.
5. There are -1 that are given to good questions and good answers. You may see people receiving minus one for no reasons.
6. The moderators are stupid nazis. If the moderation of stackoverflow was efficient, there would not be so much garbage on Stackoverflow.
7. People only copy / paste pieces of official documentation like php.net
8. People paraphrase the official documentation without understanding it.
9. Some people talk philosophy while we expect to see code. So, after reading 4 responses you discover that you learned nothing.
10. Some pieces of code can be dangerous and don't blindly trust this code.

I've been around stackoverflow for a few years and so I have a few questions there. My most recent question was put on hold almost straight away stating that I needed to be more specific. So I edited my question and then waited, but nothing came of it. The moderator that basically locked my question then went through some of my old questions and edited them... changing complete sentences as he saw fit.

English is not my first language, but the amount of time spend judging and editing my questions was probably 100 times more than just helping me with my problem. An ENTIRE day was completely wasted as I waited for someone, anyone, to help me move forward with the issue I had.

Naturally I had to work after hours and had to do a complete patch job just to have something that works because I dared asking for help and my grammar and spelling wasn't up to their standards.

I live in a third world country. The thing third world countries need the most is education/knowledge. That's what I came to stackoverflow for. If you want to help with my grammar and spelling, that's fine, but in this case the most important thing was completely ignored and I just got shoved aside. I can't even close my own question now.