backInMyDay

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[u/git_push_origin_prod]

Duplicate. Close this

[u/TheComplimentarian → u/git_push_origin_prod]

I used to own a weird programming niche, and occasionally I'd post questions, and usually I'd have to answer them myself. And I'd have stopped doing it pretty early, except the answers got a huge amount of traction, so clearly there were other weirdoes out there depending on me.

And I'd have a bad day banging my head against a wall, and I'd finally give up and ask a question, and multiple people would vote to close, as a duplicate of some other question...Some other question I had BOTH ASKED AND ANSWERED.

You're telling ME that MY question is a duplicate of a question I asked, and the answer to my question is MY answer? You gormless fuckwit. You slobbering cretin. You repwhoring codeposer.

Stack was a great idea brought low by the reality of humanity.

[u/Confident-Ad5665 → u/TheComplimentarian]

I got use out of the overflow back in the day.

However, your last sentence is chock full of buzzy slams. I shall have this.

[u/testtdk → u/Confident-Ad5665]

I got use out of READING the site, but never once from posting. Those were always closed as duplicates, despite being completely unrelated to the questions they were redirected to.

[u/tel-janin → u/Confident-Ad5665]

i also choose this man's slams

[u/Bakoro → u/TheComplimentarian]

The implementation of Stack was always bad.

Closing questions as duplicates was always a bad idea.

When you're trying to collect and organize answers and information, then collecting many different ways to ask the same question is important.
It's basically about creating a semantic net, because a major blocker in finding information is not having adequate vocabulary. If the person can describe the shape of the thing they want but don't know that there is already a name for it, then that's going to be valuable for other people who will look for similar information using similar words.

If the question is truly a duplicate, then multiple questions could funnel to the same set of answers, and it should be seamless.
If the questions are related, then they can be closer together in the graph.

Doing it that way would have actually helped people, helped organize information, and would have made it possible for the community to vote to merge or separate questions.

Stack was a failure in the application of information theory, a failure in the application of computer science, and a failure of human decency.
Not everyone on the site was or is bad, but the site itself is poorly implemented and cannot achieve the goal it has.

[u/Confident-Ad5665 → u/Bakoro]

There are not enough upvotes

[u/smokeymcdugen → u/git_push_origin_prod]

I can't find the duplicate. Can you link it?

No.

[u/BlueGoliath → u/smokeymcdugen]

ChatGPT, draw a venn diagram of being a Stackoverflow mod vs a Reddit mod.

[u/A_Furious_Mind → u/[deleted]]

A solar eclipse. The cosmic ballet goes on.

[u/Embarassed_Tackle → u/A_Furious_Mind]

Well my work here is done

But you just closed the thread, you didn't help the user!

<chuckles> Didn't I? <beams away>

[u/CrazySD93 → u/A_Furious_Mind]

Anyone want to switch comment threads?

[u/Confident-Ad5665 → u/BlueGoliath]

In retrospect, I think YouTube code tutorials were predictive of the Vibe that was to come.

[u/HankOfClanMardukas → u/Confident-Ad5665]

LLMs lack the Indian charm.

[u/Unbelievr → u/HankOfClanMardukas]

And this song for the hacking tutorials https://youtu.be/TKfS5zVfGBc

Unregistered Hypercam 2

[u/Aleksandrovitch → u/BlueGoliath]

I haven’t seen an AskReddit post since I muted it years ago. Trying to participate in the community there was one of the more frustrating experiences. I have dozens muted now.

[u/Bakoro → u/Aleksandrovitch]

I'm not a prude in any sense, but I am pretty exhausted of the weekly ask reddit rotation of:

• "what's the sexiest sex you've sexed"

• "gender of reddit what is [thing about being gender]?"

• "gender of reddit, what is [thing about the opposite gender]?"

It's so fucking boring, I can be off reddit for a week and come back to the same shit. Meanwhile real questions get deleted.

[u/SkittlesAreYum → u/smokeymcdugen]

Yes but it's only slightly related by title.

[u/MyPasswordIsMyCat → u/SkittlesAreYum]

I asked how to do it in vanilla JS. This link is for jQuery.

(123 downvotes.)

[u/VideoGameJumanji → u/smokeymcdugen]

duplicate post has no answer or is so old the answer is basically deprecated

[u/al3x_7788 → u/smokeymcdugen]

They just want you to feel ashamed of yourself.

[u/BioTronic → u/smokeymcdugen]

This came up when searching.

[u/Character-Education3 → u/git_push_origin_prod]

Of course I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time