AI didn’t stackoverflow. Its own toxic environment did.
Learning to code, and run into an issue that is extremely common but you dont know that because again, youre learning to code? Answered before, removed
Have an issue that you dont know exactly how it came about, and others have been talking about it elsewhere because its a relatively new issue but is pervasive? Duplicate, removed
Have an issue because you aren’t God’s gift to coding? Verbally assaulted in the responses, removed.
It was a shit website dominated by the worst of computer science.
The strict moderation is the main strength of it. Makes it so much easier to find useful answers and for those answers to be refined.
Most of the toxicity I’ve seen surrounding the site has been from people upset that they were asked to improve their search skills, asked to improve their question to be more useful for those answering them, or simply demanding that people answer to their deadlines.
It’s hard to take complaints about the site seriously when so many of them seen to come from entitled arseholes being offended at being asked to not be arseholes.
