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Discussion on: Why I don't use Stack Overflow

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Ian Turton

Not using SO is of course your choice, but I think you are missing out.

I use SO a lot and am a moderator on gis.stackexchange.com and I don't see the toxicity that you talk about but may be that's because I don't look at javascript or .net or other "popular" tags. But I do see a lot of "rude" people who take my help and can't even be bothered to upvote my answer (see unsung hero gold badge Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total. stackoverflow.com/help/badges/226/...) - but it still find it useful to answer the questions. It helps me understand what people are using my library to do and what isn't clear in the documentation.