Most of my questions on SO proper are about solving specific technical problems that I already tried solving at length, so I haven't had a lot of issue there. I've started many questions and then answered them myself in the process of writing the question, so I didn't post. Most of my answers on SO are because I had the same question and ran across the unanswered (or not thoroughly answered) question on SO. After I found the answer I needed elsewhere, I went back and added mine to the SO question for posterity. Most of the bad treatment on SO I've seen is from other users, not necessarily from mods. As far as the mods go, it does really hurt the ego to ask a question and get bopped on the head for it. However, I have often observed that people don't bother to think through their questions or even do a quick search for answers before posting.
usually upvoted at least 3 times, presumably by other mods
Within the past several months, I saw a question where the mod literally mocked the poster's English mistakes. It was upvoted multiple times.
Downvotes of legitimate, answerable questions
A couple of times, my question or answer got only downvotes, and I just deleted.
Sometimes mods are prone to do this when they have a low opinion of a topic. Or in ignorance, they assume the question is unanswerable.
I have even gotten "warned" about answering questions which were closed as too broad, even though I did have a concrete answer.
Needless edits for rep sake
More than once, I rolled them back because it changed the meaning of what I said or was unnecessary.
Corrections on technicalities which don't materially change the question.
Some people don't understand "spirit of the law" over "letter of the law".
I have actually never asked a question on the software engineering site... or if I did I deleted it. But I have observed all of these on other questions/answers. Although I shouldn't, sometimes I have participated in comment arguments. Disagreement on a logical basis is usually fine, but because of the nature of the site, comments like that are rarely productive. The culture/rules on the Software Engineering site is just a really broken for its stated purpose. And some of the active mods I see on there are toxic.
If you really want to see how people are treated on the site, watch the newest unanswered questions. This is where you can see how mods and other users treat question askers before they disappear from being downvoted and closed.
Yea stack overflow has a really really bad Iam better than you mind set. I personally feel like they are horrible when it comes to new people. In all honesty if I have questions I come to places like this or slack chat. At least then I actually get help and not down voted. Because people don’t like my question. I have posted things on there in the past and have gained rep ect from it but I get better explanations on other sites and slack chat community’s.
Dev from EU, currently working in frontend development, with knowledge of docker and kubernetes.
I love tinkering and staying up with the latest technology.
Apparently this was my first question, which nobody answered, and I found out shortly that it was a bug in MySQL.
How do I convert a mysql function result to tinyint
Most of my questions on SO proper are about solving specific technical problems that I already tried solving at length, so I haven't had a lot of issue there. I've started many questions and then answered them myself in the process of writing the question, so I didn't post. Most of my answers on SO are because I had the same question and ran across the unanswered (or not thoroughly answered) question on SO. After I found the answer I needed elsewhere, I went back and added mine to the SO question for posterity. Most of the bad treatment on SO I've seen is from other users, not necessarily from mods. As far as the mods go, it does really hurt the ego to ask a question and get bopped on the head for it. However, I have often observed that people don't bother to think through their questions or even do a quick search for answers before posting.
The main negative experiences have been from the Software Engineering site:
I have actually never asked a question on the software engineering site... or if I did I deleted it. But I have observed all of these on other questions/answers. Although I shouldn't, sometimes I have participated in comment arguments. Disagreement on a logical basis is usually fine, but because of the nature of the site, comments like that are rarely productive. The culture/rules on the Software Engineering site is just a really broken for its stated purpose. And some of the active mods I see on there are toxic.
If you really want to see how people are treated on the site, watch the newest unanswered questions. This is where you can see how mods and other users treat question askers before they disappear from being downvoted and closed.
Yea stack overflow has a really really bad Iam better than you mind set. I personally feel like they are horrible when it comes to new people. In all honesty if I have questions I come to places like this or slack chat. At least then I actually get help and not down voted. Because people don’t like my question. I have posted things on there in the past and have gained rep ect from it but I get better explanations on other sites and slack chat community’s.
I think its encouraged to post your question, that you also found an answer to.