Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them had one or more negative votes.
It's clear that some of these are bad questions.
It's also clear that some of these belong on StackOverflow, but people are downvoting rather than recommending a change of venue, for reasons that escape me.
Moreover, though, it's abundantly clear that this site is completely unable to explain its purpose in a way that more than half the people posting new questions can understand. It's been a problem for a long time, and it's beginning to seem like a problem that will never be solved.
As a result, people who are genuinely trying to get help with their code, and are merely asking on the wrong site (a site which is named "Programmers", after all), are being downvoted into oblivion and having their questions closed, and are no closer to getting any help.
Why continue? There's some valuable information here, but it's buried in so much cruft that it'd be surprising if anyone saw it. Time to put a cork in it.
But perhaps you disagree. If so, why? What value do you see in this site? And how can it be salvaged?
By way of comparison, here are the numbers of downvoted questions (from the most recent 50) from a few other SE sites:
Travel: 1
German: 0
Sci-Fi: 2
Arqade: 14
DBA: 3
Music: Practice & Theory: 5
StackOverflow: 2
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them had one or more negative votes.
It's clear that some of these are bad questions.
It's also clear that some of these belong on StackOverflow, but people are downvoting rather than recommending a change of venue, for reasons that escape me.
Moreover, though, it's abundantly clear that this site is completely unable to explain its purpose in a way that more than half the people posting new questions can understand. It's been a problem for a long time, and it's beginning to seem like a problem that will never be solved.
As a result, people who are genuinely trying to get help with their code, and are merely asking on the wrong site (a site which is named "Programmers", after all), are being downvoted into oblivion and having their questions closed, and are no closer to getting any help.
Why continue? There's some valuable information here, but it's buried in so much cruft that it'd be surprising if anyone saw it. Time to put a cork in it.
But perhaps you disagree. If so, why? What value do you see in this site? And how can it be salvaged?
By way of comparison, here are the numbers of downvoted questions (from the most recent 50) from a few other SE sites:
Travel: 1
German: 0
Sci-Fi: 2
Arqade: 14
DBA: 3
Music: Practice & Theory: 5
StackOverflow: 2
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them had one or more negative votes.
It's clear that some of these are bad questions.
It's also clear that some of these belong on StackOverflow, but people are downvoting rather than recommending a change of venue, for reasons that escape me.
Moreover, though, it's abundantly clear that this site is completely unable to explain its purpose in a way that more than half the people posting new questions can understand. It's been a problem for a long time, and it's beginning to seem like a problem that will never be solved.
As a result, people who are genuinely trying to get help with their code, and are merely asking on the wrong site (a site which is named "Programmers", after all), are being downvoted into oblivion and having their questions closed, and are no closer to getting any help.
Why continue? There's some valuable information here, but it's buried in so much cruft that it'd be surprising if anyone saw it. Time to put a cork in it.
But perhaps you disagree. If so, why? What value do you see in this site? And how can it be salvaged?
By way of comparison, here are the numbers of downvoted questions (from the most recent 50) from a few other SE sites:
Travel: 1
German: 0
Sci-Fi: 2
Arqade: 14
DBA: 3
Music: Practice & Theory: 5
StackOverflow: 2
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them had one or more negative votes.
It's clear that some of these are bad questions.
It's also clear that some of these belong on StackOverflow, but people are downvoting rather than recommending a change of venue, for reasons that escape me.
Moreover, though, it's abundantly clear that this site is completely unable to explain its purpose in a way that more than half the people posting new questions can understand. It's been a problem for a long time, and it's beginning to seem like a problem that will never be solved.
As a result, people who are genuinely trying to get help with their code, and are merely asking on the wrong site (a site which is named "Programmers", after all), are being downvoted into oblivion and having their questions closed, and are no closer to getting any help.
Why continue? There's some valuable information here, but it's buried in so much cruft that it'd be surprising if anyone saw it. Time to put a cork in it.
But perhaps you disagree. If so, why? What value do you see in this site? And how can it be salvaged?
By way of comparison, here are the numbers of downvoted questions (from the most recent 50) from a few other SE sites:
Travel: 1
German: 0
Sci-Fi: 2
Arqade: 14
DBA: 3
Music: Practice & Theory: 5
StackOverflow: 2
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them had one or more negative votes.
It's clear that some of these are bad questions.
It's also clear that some of these belong on StackOverflow, but people are downvoting rather than recommending a change of venue, for reasons that escape me.
Moreover, though, it's abundantly clear that this site is completely unable to explain its purpose in a way that more than half the people posting new questions can understand. It's been a problem for a long time, and it's beginning to seem like a problem that will never be solved.
As a result, people who are genuinely trying to get help with their code, and are merely asking on the wrong site (a site which is named "Programmers", after all), are being downvoted into oblivion and having their questions closed, and are no closer to getting any help.
Why continue? There's some valuable information here, but it's buried in so much cruft that it'd be surprising if anyone saw it. Time to put a cork in it.
But perhaps you disagree. If so, why? What value do you see in this site? And how can it be salvaged?
By way of comparison, here are the numbers of downvoted questions (from the most recent 50) from a few other SE sites:
Travel: 1
German: 0
Sci-Fi: 2
Arqade: 14
DBA: 3
Music: Practice & Theory: 5
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them had one or more negative votes.
It's clear that some of these are bad questions.
It's also clear that some of these belong on StackOverflow, but people are downvoting rather than recommending a change of venue, for reasons that escape me.
Moreover, though, it's abundantly clear that this site is completely unable to explain its purpose in a way that more than half the people posting new questions can understand. It's been a problem for a long time, and it's beginning to seem like a problem that will never be solved.
As a result, people who are genuinely trying to get help with their code, and are merely asking on the wrong site (a site which is named "Programmers", after all), are being downvoted into oblivion and having their questions closed, and are no closer to getting any help.
Why continue? There's some valuable information here, but it's buried in so much cruft that it'd be surprising if anyone saw it. Time to put a cork in it.
But perhaps you disagree. If so, why? What value do you see in this site? And how can it be salvaged?
By way of comparison, here are the numbers of downvoted questions (from the most recent 50) from a few other SE sites:
Travel: 1
German: 0
Sci-Fi: 2
Arqade: 14
DBA: 3
Music: Practice & Theory: 5
StackOverflow: 2
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them had one or more negative votes.
It's clear that some of these are bad questions.
It's also clear that some of these belong on StackOverflow, but people are downvoting rather than recommending a change of venue, for reasons that escape me.
Moreover, though, it's abundantly clear that this site is completely unable to explain its purpose in a way that more than half the people posting new questions can understand. It's been a problem for a long time, and it's beginning to seem like a problem that will never be solved.
As a result, people who are genuinely trying to get help with their code, and are merely asking on the wrong site (a site which is named "Programmers", after all), are being downvoted into oblivion and having their questions closed, and are no closer to getting any help.
Why continue? There's some valuable information here, but it's buried in so much cruft that it'd be surprising if anyone saw it. Time to put a cork in it.
But perhaps you disagree. If so, why? What value do you see in this site? And how can it be salvaged?
By way of comparison, here are the numbers of downvoted questions (from the most recent 50) from a few other SE sites:
Travel: 1
German: 0
Sci-Fi: 2
Arqade: 14
DBA: 3
Music: Practice & Theory: 5
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them had one or more negative votes.
It's clear that some of these are bad questions.
It's also clear that some of these belong on StackOverflow, but people are downvoting rather than recommending a change of venue, for reasons that escape me.
Moreover, though, it's abundantly clear that this site is completely unable to explain its purpose in a way that more than half the people posting new questions can understand. It's been a problem for a long time, and it's beginning to seem like a problem that will never be solved.
As a result, people who are genuinely trying to get help with their code, and are merely asking on the wrong site (a site which is named "Programmers", after all), are being downvoted into oblivion and having their questions closed, and are no closer to getting any help.
Why continue? There's some valuable information here, but it's buried in so much cruft that it'd be surprising if anyone saw it. Time to put a cork in it.
But perhaps you disagree. If so, why? What value do you see in this site? And how can it be salvaged?
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them had one or more negative votes.
It's clear that some of these are bad questions.
It's also clear that some of these belong on StackOverflow, but people are downvoting rather than recommending a change of venue, for reasons that escape me.
Moreover, though, it's abundantly clear that this site is completely unable to explain its purpose in a way that more than half the people posting new questions can understand. It's been a problem for a long time, and it's beginning to seem like a problem that will never be solved.
As a result, people who are genuinely trying to get help with their code, and are merely asking on the wrong site (a site which is named "Programmers", after all), are being downvoted into oblivion and having their questions closed, and are no closer to getting any help.
Why continue? There's some valuable information here, but it's buried in so much cruft that it'd be surprising if anyone saw it. Time to put a cork in it.
But perhaps you disagree. If so, why? What value do you see in this site? And how can it be salvaged?
By way of comparison, here are the numbers of downvoted questions (from the most recent 50) from a few other SE sites:
Travel: 1
German: 0
Sci-Fi: 2
Arqade: 14
DBA: 3
Music: Practice & Theory: 5