In the ~10+ years I have been using SO I have never found it particularly welcoming.
What's worse is having this very specific issue, which you struggle to understand why it's happening so then also struggle to articulate the situation.
You spend an age gathering as much information as possible, adding links and code examples post it only to have it downvoted or have someone edit it for you without adding anything else to the question.
This actually happened to me the other day: xkcd.com/979/
All I could offer at the time was a poke at humour with the link to the image in the comments but I did manage to solve it. So being a good SO citizen I shared my solution not thinking to have it accepted or acknowledged.
In the ~10+ years I have been using SO I have never found it particularly welcoming.
What's worse is having this very specific issue, which you struggle to understand why it's happening so then also struggle to articulate the situation.
You spend an age gathering as much information as possible, adding links and code examples post it only to have it downvoted or have someone edit it for you without adding anything else to the question.
This actually happened to me the other day:
xkcd.com/979/
All I could offer at the time was a poke at humour with the link to the image in the comments but I did manage to solve it. So being a good SO citizen I shared my solution not thinking to have it accepted or acknowledged.
stackoverflow.com/questions/240934...
These situations are far outweighed by the "possible duplicate" and downvotes though.