The almighty Meta Stack Overflow effect in action
We still need some time to recover from the loss of our last victim, but here goes the next post about the almighty and all-pervading ME (Meta Effect). Someone has just brought our attention today to a...
View ArticlePublic Answer to Brad Larson for lpapp’s ban
Hi everyone, here you can read the public answer from lpapp to Brad Larson’s post. This user had been warned by four moderators in six direct moderator messages and three suspensions prior to this....
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Why does Meta Stack Overflow tolerate people not telling the truth?
It was a deep sorrow to see someone again not telling the truth. Being a very new account, about 2-3 months “old”, is not an excuse. Let us see what exactly happened: This ban was completely...
View ArticleWhy do uneducated answerers not hide in shame on Stack Overflow?
THIS IS TRULY UNBELIEVABLE… the almost link-only answer writes: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/commands.html#cmdsnippet This is used to delimit the quoted code in the relevant snippet file...
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Brad Larson in action again
This is not a surprise, unfortunately. The Stack Overflow moderators defend low-quality content and start to warn experts who spend their spare time for free on this site. Here goes the moderator’s...
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Another Trusted User said goodby(t)e to Stack Overflow
It is, on one hand, saddening to see another 25K+ Trusted User leaving Stack Overflow with all his expertise given for free to Stack Exchange, on the other hand, it is understandable. See what the top...
View ArticleFlags are not anonymous on Stack Overlflow?
One of the Trusted Users reported that lately he flagged a very low quality contribution in the form of an answer of a rep whore with lots of reputation points on the question in the form of bounty....
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Andrew Barber keeps unhelpfully closing valid questions
The current story is some observation by multiple Trusted Users about Andrew Barber‘s closure pattern on Stack Overflow. While the name does not really matter, it is still mentioned as some people seem...
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One of the lamest reasons for banning on Stack Overflow
It has happened several times now to Trusted Users that they have been banned for the reason of: More than one person has expressed that they would not like to work with the user in questions. This is...
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Why you should avoid Stack Overflow
It has been a long time since the last blog post. This has been caused by various reasons, but the most important has been the fact that life is so much better without a site like Stack Overflow....
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