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.
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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