From now on, I will not recommend using Stack Overflow. I just can't believe that there are so many arrogant people since I've joined Stack Overflow about 3 years ago. I believe the other reviews that were negative and am sorry for their poor experience regarding it. Here's my overall experience.I have joined Stack Overflow, but stayed idle until I posted a question regarding closing source an open source application, which turned out to be more software engineering related question than programming related. Turns out that the consequences are getting one downvote, and a vote to close the question. This question was at the moment I didn't know a bit about Stack Overflow.However, my interests to Java declined, so I kept going on with my development of "Kernel Simulator" until I faced an extremely difficult problem with the two computers taking turns to chat in its remote debugging chat feature. I tried to figure out the cause for hours, and I have EVEN googled for the answers that didn't help! Finally, because I got disappointed, I went in to post my questions with DETAILED information, source code, and EVEN the outputs!Guess what was the response. Someone whose name will not be disclosed told me that I can't use StreamReader and that I have to google for "vb.net chat application." BUT I HAVE GOOGLED AND NONE OF THE ANSWERS WORKED! So, I kept figuring out why until this thing came up across my head: streamnet.ReadTimeout = 10I put it in my code, and it's fixed. I only had to wrap it using Try...Catch block to get messages from every computer connected to the kernel that has remote debugging turned on.After few months, when I decided that Visual Studio 2019 kept annoying me because it wasn't able to check for errors LIVE as I type like previous versions of VS would, and I was SO USED TO that habit, I've posted this question. You know what? One person that didn't understand the point of the question came, saying "Have you turned on Option Strict On?" WHAT? BUT I AM TALKING ABOUT VISUAL STUDIO 2019 NOT BEING ABLE TO CHECK ALL MY FILES FOR ERRORS LIVE AS I TYPE LIKE VS2017 WOULD!After exactly 5 minutes, a person that fully understood the situation came and said that I was right for performance improvements. However, he said that he didn't know how to revert it. After three days, I've thanked him. At this point, nobody even answered it!At this point, I only have 23 points. I will no longer be contributing to Stack Overflow as a result of this horrible experience. People that told me wrong questions and answers that had nothing to do with the topic that I'm talking about exist. People that down vote you exist. People on SO that tell you to google exist!!!Imagine that somebody tells you to google something when you asked them a question regarding the topic you're talking about IN REAL LIFE. None of the people that I've talked to in real life have even asked me to google something!Because I am afraid to continue getting misleading answers, and because there are no more easy questions, I will no longer contribute to Stack Overflow and all of the Stack Exchange sites, especially a question that talked about KDE Plasma not starting because the computer would freeze that is found in Ask Ubuntu. Instead of informing me that OpenGL 2 and SSE2 are required, one person asked me a question rudely after I have posted my own answer.By the way, don't go with just my words; keep reading the negative reviews, and see what is the current state of Stack Overflow. In the future, I may close my Stack Exchange account. Also, google "What is bad about Stack Overflow" and see how many people are suffering from this, especially the gamification of the reputation systems.---UPDATE 1: I have seen next to zero improvements to this site.For example, I came across a question from 2015 that was asked by a newbie wanting to know how an app called AppOps can do this using a subset of Android APIs, and six unhelpful people downvoted it. When the original poster questioned why, this is the response:"Welcome to StackOverflow, unfortunately your question does not demonstrate any attempt of prior research. In order to get a good response, it is advised you should show evidence you have attempted to solve the problem, either in code or otherwise, before asking a question. – Ed George"Huh? This newbie just wanted to know if it was possible to achieve the same goal that AppOps did in 2015! If he had tried to do it, he would've posted all the code for these crybabies!Check out https ://sergworks (dot) wordpress.com /2012/09/26/why-stackoverflow-sucks/ and see how many people suffered because of these shower of morons there. Luckily, I have an account at VBForums and a C# community. I hope that someday these rude people finally man up and solve their arrogance, rudeness, and unhelpfulness!
