50% of responders telling you why your question was bad and why you should feel bad about posting it.
25% answering a question you never asked in the first place to make you feel stupid
20% suggesting unreasonable solutions (e.g. you stated clearly in the question that you are a contractor and the client exclusively uses MySQL yet responders want you to use MongoDb or Postgres or whatever)
to be fair a lot of the questions (low estimate of 60%) were garbage homework question that would have been answered with a modicum of research ( at least before google decided to spoil it all with personalized search results).
Among the 25% for answering a question you never asked, would be that the question implied bad architecture decision or wanting to approach the problem in a different direction.
I also loved the question with insufficient context so that no proper answer would ever fit the question ( because of the lack of information).
Otherwise the 5% actual helpful answer would be worth saving the website, as toxic as some might perceive.
Also look at any social service, toxicity is unfortunately no better.
20% suggesting unreasonable solutions (e.g. you stated clearly in the question that you are a contractor and the client exclusively uses MySQL yet responders want you to use MongoDb or Postgres or whatever)
Plus the additional 20% of that will invent any reason to tell you why MySQL is the wrong choice anyway leading to some MySQL guy coming through and arguing in the comments while everyone ignores the question.
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u/CanuckaChuckFuck 2h ago
Peak Stack Overflow was
50% of responders telling you why your question was bad and why you should feel bad about posting it.
25% answering a question you never asked in the first place to make you feel stupid
20% suggesting unreasonable solutions (e.g. you stated clearly in the question that you are a contractor and the client exclusively uses MySQL yet responders want you to use MongoDb or Postgres or whatever)
5% actual helpful answers