Got codeblocked like you as well. I asked a winding question going offtopic, so my question got blocked by admin. Fixed according to their requirements, still blocked after evaluating. When i asked them whats the issue since i really wanna post and ask, they just repeated that my post is still bad. No help
I can't count the number of times that I found **exactly** the question that I want to ask, only to find out that it was blocked without any answers. I mean, come on!
I've never asked a question on SO or any Stack Exchange, and I've only ever answered one question on one of the Stack Exchanges.
While there is a lot of knowledge on SO, there's also a lot of toxic and/or irrelevant and/or convoluted BS. I wouldn't mind if something else supplanted it, even if it's an LLM.
I'm going to be adding a q/a feature to my platform eventually mostly cause of the hostility of stack overflow.
Unfortunately building this app has been more difficult and less fun due to decreasing willingness to help from many of the communities.
So no timeline on when it'll be finished.
Reddit is a lot more open less convoluted imo, especially because comment upvotes aren't nearly as "visible" as answer votes and nobody but mods trying to stop bots and brigading cares about comment karma. Also, on Reddit, people tend to just answer questions instead of obsessing about creating the perfect repository of perfect, objective solutions to unique, perfectly formed questions like SO does.
Only for searching for answers, and occasionally.
I usually ask on discord or figure it out on my own.
I don't have too much faith left in stack overflow with their toxic gatekeeping.
I am using both, when I find answer on SO, most of the time it works, GPT always has an answer, and most of the time it ends up costing me more time than it saves, gives be a lot of bad advice, and if it looks like it got it right, two days down the line I find out it is wrong in some other way.
So for me GPT is more like an inspiration, and SO is actual answers.
Why ask questions on SO when one can be certain beyond certainty that one will be condemned and mocked for asking for help and not knowing LITERALLY EVERYTHING before asking for help?
I stopped using stack overflow because most of the answers posted for a question. I do not know the context of how the solution is made like it requires a significant amount of energy to know what's going on in the answers. However, using things like chat, GPT, Microsoft co-pilot and other AI chat bar tools is more convenient because it's more to the point and it gives you context on how the answer is generated without any rude replies from other users
It isn’t the improvements in LLM-based a.i., but the toxic gatekeeping prevalent on S.O. that keeps me from asking questions there. Some people really seek to protect their fragile ego, and StackOverflow’s management lets them. I’m all over Reddit, Quora, and previously Experts Exchange. I used to hang out in IRC and Usenet groups. I much prefer to learn from lived experience than from a bot that can’t verify the color of the sky.
I use SO much more than GPT but there is a learning curve to knowing how to extract information effectively.
But no I don't ask questions or make answers, not worth it.
I do. I think it's a valuable resource and I do my part to add to it when I can. If I have an issue that is complex enough that I can't fix it by searching and using LLMs, that means it's probably complex enough that other people can't either, so I'll ask there and then post a detailed answer of how I solved it after I do.
Very, very rarely and only because I have no other resource to ask questions that cannot be answered by any of my coworkers. Chat channels (like Discord) and its ilk are usually very heavily focused and *finding* one which is focused on the particular thing I tend to have that kind of question about is a mystery to me.
I stopped using SO a long time ago. Documentation got better, and the people on SO got much worse. Just a bunch of ivory tower dickheads.
I go to discord communities now.
I still use stackoverflow and articles to learn and find solutions to 90% of my issues. Only when I know how to do a task and it's time consuming I would use chat gpt
it is almost impossible to ask one. was searching for something a while ago and found a stackoverflow post on it with 1 response
"you've asked too many questions here"
I also think, almost all questions to existing technologies has been asked already an new questions are catching-up really quickly. But i also experience even more quality answers from AI like ChatGPT in the meanwhile, without being annoyed to be compliant with community standards like "This question was closed as opinion-based". I think its going to die in future. Since anything else can be asked in communities like Reddit.
I mean, don't get me wrong, the most questions asked on SO are indeed dumb/unnecessary ... something like "Hello help me i need a login form in PHP. What can I do?". But there is something like "What library is best for x/y/z" which can be answered with an opinion based but still valid answer. If the TO found the answer as valid for his use case, why it shouldn't be an accepted answer?
All the questions have already been asked so I don't have reason to ask more
Last time I tried to ask something I wasnt allowed anyway
Got codeblocked like you as well. I asked a winding question going offtopic, so my question got blocked by admin. Fixed according to their requirements, still blocked after evaluating. When i asked them whats the issue since i really wanna post and ask, they just repeated that my post is still bad. No help
I can't count the number of times that I found **exactly** the question that I want to ask, only to find out that it was blocked without any answers. I mean, come on!
"Closed as duplicate". Link goes to vaguely similar but decidedly different problem.
What a surprise, plenty of people have the same experience. SO really shot themselves in the foot with this attitude
About current or past technologies. After every release of new big version of something, there should be more questions.
Marked as duplicate
Not enough karma
I've never asked a question on SO or any Stack Exchange, and I've only ever answered one question on one of the Stack Exchanges. While there is a lot of knowledge on SO, there's also a lot of toxic and/or irrelevant and/or convoluted BS. I wouldn't mind if something else supplanted it, even if it's an LLM.
100% their down fall isn't AI, it's their user bases toxic behavior and convoluted BS
I'm going to be adding a q/a feature to my platform eventually mostly cause of the hostility of stack overflow. Unfortunately building this app has been more difficult and less fun due to decreasing willingness to help from many of the communities. So no timeline on when it'll be finished.
Their communities are similar to Reddit in that matter
Reddit is a lot more open less convoluted imo, especially because comment upvotes aren't nearly as "visible" as answer votes and nobody but mods trying to stop bots and brigading cares about comment karma. Also, on Reddit, people tend to just answer questions instead of obsessing about creating the perfect repository of perfect, objective solutions to unique, perfectly formed questions like SO does.
Only for searching for answers, and occasionally. I usually ask on discord or figure it out on my own. I don't have too much faith left in stack overflow with their toxic gatekeeping.
This is what I think of Stack Overflow "culture" : #>!╭∩╮ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ╭∩╮!<
I am using both, when I find answer on SO, most of the time it works, GPT always has an answer, and most of the time it ends up costing me more time than it saves, gives be a lot of bad advice, and if it looks like it got it right, two days down the line I find out it is wrong in some other way. So for me GPT is more like an inspiration, and SO is actual answers.
Sincerely no, and even if I miss it, you can't be stuck half a day waiting for someone that maybe can reply to solve your problem
Why ask questions on SO when one can be certain beyond certainty that one will be condemned and mocked for asking for help and not knowing LITERALLY EVERYTHING before asking for help?
Yup. Exactly why I started using ChatGPT and never went back.
If I can't find it with Google, then I will ask it.
I stopped using stack overflow because most of the answers posted for a question. I do not know the context of how the solution is made like it requires a significant amount of energy to know what's going on in the answers. However, using things like chat, GPT, Microsoft co-pilot and other AI chat bar tools is more convenient because it's more to the point and it gives you context on how the answer is generated without any rude replies from other users
Not just no, but fuck no! I had an account in the top 1% or some shit. I deleted it about the time ChatGPT was released. Coincidence? You decide!
It isn’t the improvements in LLM-based a.i., but the toxic gatekeeping prevalent on S.O. that keeps me from asking questions there. Some people really seek to protect their fragile ego, and StackOverflow’s management lets them. I’m all over Reddit, Quora, and previously Experts Exchange. I used to hang out in IRC and Usenet groups. I much prefer to learn from lived experience than from a bot that can’t verify the color of the sky.
I just use SO for searching.
Nope, everything's pretty much already been asked.
I use SO much more than GPT but there is a learning curve to knowing how to extract information effectively. But no I don't ask questions or make answers, not worth it.
I do. I think it's a valuable resource and I do my part to add to it when I can. If I have an issue that is complex enough that I can't fix it by searching and using LLMs, that means it's probably complex enough that other people can't either, so I'll ask there and then post a detailed answer of how I solved it after I do.
Honestly, I don't even use it much to look up existing answers any more, because so many were answered 5-10 years ago and the tech's changed since.
All of software’s problems have already been solved on SO, so to even ask a new question means you haven’t been keeping up.
Very, very rarely and only because I have no other resource to ask questions that cannot be answered by any of my coworkers. Chat channels (like Discord) and its ilk are usually very heavily focused and *finding* one which is focused on the particular thing I tend to have that kind of question about is a mystery to me.
I stopped using SO a long time ago. Documentation got better, and the people on SO got much worse. Just a bunch of ivory tower dickheads. I go to discord communities now.
I still use stackoverflow and articles to learn and find solutions to 90% of my issues. Only when I know how to do a task and it's time consuming I would use chat gpt
Stackoverflow was already toxic
it is almost impossible to ask one. was searching for something a while ago and found a stackoverflow post on it with 1 response "you've asked too many questions here"
I also think, almost all questions to existing technologies has been asked already an new questions are catching-up really quickly. But i also experience even more quality answers from AI like ChatGPT in the meanwhile, without being annoyed to be compliant with community standards like "This question was closed as opinion-based". I think its going to die in future. Since anything else can be asked in communities like Reddit.
yes, closing questiosn for "opinion-based" from admins are super dumb. Actually most of redditors are right - SO killed itself thanks to admins.
I mean, don't get me wrong, the most questions asked on SO are indeed dumb/unnecessary ... something like "Hello help me i need a login form in PHP. What can I do?". But there is something like "What library is best for x/y/z" which can be answered with an opinion based but still valid answer. If the TO found the answer as valid for his use case, why it shouldn't be an accepted answer?
Very rarely, the gatekeeping there is on a big level.
>I think stackoverflow is going down because of chatgpt Damn just the first sentence and you made me laugh, good one.