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All of the stack sites have a very…

All of the stack sites have a very biased, negative, toxic, and narrow-minded community.They have a lot of biased members that down vote and flag questions for deletion for way too many crappy reasons. Its suppose to be, if you do not want to answer the question, then move on politely, and let someone else answer the question who will. Instead I have seen them downvote and flag for deletion just because the op's question bugs them in some way. It could be the question, it could be the op's choice of language, when its not their prefered choice. This is evident when someone posts an answer in c++ , when I directly asked a question for pure c, in the title so I could avoid the confusion. The community members are rude and overly opinionated in their replies and in their ability to flag for deletion.I was flagged once because my question was in pure c. They flagged it as a duplicate of a c# question. These are two different languages and the way you approach them when programming is different. One has tools and features the other does not. So the person who flagged my question for deletion did so out of spite.The flagging for crappy reasons seems to result from biases and because they want to earn the badges and points so they can have some kind of toxic site status they can gleam about. The site doesn't provide a way to get answers for larger more complicated projects, which it should, because it's supposed to be a site for answers on different parts of programming. The members say that a lot of topics are too broad and flag for deletion instead of trying to answer the question. Which makes no sense because all the big broad topics can be broken down into smaller topics but the toxic members refuse to help narrow down the question to a particular problem. The site does not allow you to drop a github link to your code which could help when you have a lot of files and a large project. The members could fork the project and run it to help clarify the problem. Instead stack has allowed the toxic members with status to decide that using github was not ok. Instead members will ask you to provide a workable example of your code and when you do, they get mad if the code is too long. I am not a newbie so why would my question be about something I can find in a coding book? I came here for a more complicated problem and your if your not willing to answer the question then this toxic site is kinda worthless isn't it?The site has allowed the toxic members of the community way too many opinions on the site itself and how the members inter-communicate with each other on the site. These stack sites are suppose to be a database of knowledge that anyone can refer to when they need help with some more complicated coding but more often than not, you will not find the answer, you're looking for. There are usually way too many answers on any one op's question, with too many replies, and way too many people arguing about the right way to do it. This has led to way too many unorganized site questions. Making it less useful then actually useful. Again this results from people just answering to gain badges and points for status so not all answers are legit.You now have to cypher through all the bad answers as well as peoples opinions in order to find the answer that may or may not work. Especially since the site and community do not allow you to revise the original question as you begin to further understand and define the question. So all the the bad answers and replies there before you edited and refined the question, which is the final question that got you to the correct answer are now stuck with your site question. All the previous bad answers and all the negative replies are there in the final draft making it difficult for future readers visiting the site to quickly get an answer from your answer because it's all too unorganized. There also members who will answer the question right then later remove their correct answer so that its no longer there to refer back to. If I marked your answer as the right answer then that answer should not be removable by anyone but me the poster. It should be stuck there, not all the answers, that I did not mark as correct. I should have the right as the question poster to remove the replies and answers that I do not feel are relevant or correct to my question. So the final version and the right answer can now be more accessible and provide better ql for the sites future readers. This would also defer points from people just posting answers and replies to gain status by taking away points if your answer or reply was not correct and removed. Since they were removed the points for votes on those answers and relies are removed as well.So overall the stack sites are very toxic and I would not recommend any of them to anyone else to find an answer.

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Date of experience: Jul 19, 2023