Timeline for answer to The rudeness on Stack Overflow is too damn high by ValarMorghulis
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| Mar 2, 2025 at 17:10 | comment | added | Jean-Michaël Celerier | or even in good old forums... discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/84027-cakewalk-recording-problems "hey, hello, welcome" etc. always give a much better tone to a message and really help keeping the mood high and the rudeness low | |
| Mar 2, 2025 at 17:08 | comment | added | Jean-Michaël Celerier | If that was the case there would be no personal aspect to it with usernames - if I'm reading a post asking a question not created by a commercial entity but by a person, I really expect basic politeness both when reading and writing. For instance I really like the microsoft Q&A where microsoft employees consistently say "hi" when beginning a message: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2169187/… ; learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/528169/… ; (and many posters too) | |
| Mar 2, 2025 at 17:01 | comment | added | VLAZ | @Jean-MichaëlCelerier posts on SO are supposed to form an FAQ of common technical problems. Like "Q: How do I do X? A: By using the following code.". The entire site is designed to be mostly read, it's expected the vast majority of users will be landing here from web searches. So, no - not disingenuous. You seem to not actually understand the site you're using. | |
| Mar 2, 2025 at 16:54 | comment | added | Jean-Michaël Celerier | Despite your comment being fairly disingenuous - as questions on SO aren't "reference material" as they do not by themselves bring answers, only questions (if they were reference material, answers would not be required), here's some examples I found in 2 seconds of googling in my culture of documentation saying "Bonjour": cree.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Obi-Manuel_FR.pdf "Bonjour et bienvenue" ; asset.conrad.com/media10/add/160267/c1/-/fr/001518879ML03/… "Bonjour ! Félicitations. " | |
| Mar 2, 2025 at 16:23 | comment | added | VLAZ | @Jean-MichaëlCelerier your technical manuals and reference materials start with "Hello" or other greetings? Strange culture. I've not seen documentation greet me before. | |
| Mar 2, 2025 at 13:54 | comment | added | Jean-Michaël Celerier | "Rude behaviour is not allowed on SO" yet saying "hello" at the beginning of a post is automatically removed, which is in my culture incredibly rude. The rudeness in stackoverflow is systemic and caused by the moderation rules and decisions. | |
| Jan 8, 2020 at 19:51 | comment | added | DrCord | we aren't demanding people justify their downvotes, we are trying to get help making a better post and a downvote with no comment offers no help and just frustration. | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 5:14 | comment | added | Quidam | I had also rude comments after letting comments that a question didn't have to be closed, no reason given. Not my question, but though the queue "if you are not happy with what we do, get off". So, yes, it's very rude and anti-constructive comment, and it's usual here. | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 5:12 | comment | added | Quidam | For instance, I had a comment "Et t'as même pas imaginé que". That is extremely familiar. The person on her profile says that everyone should be called by the pronoun they like, and called me "tu" several times, when I told that I didn't like this way to talk to me, it's full of disdain (et t'as même pas imaginé que...), but she go on calling me "tu". So, it's pure hypocrisy here. It's not saying a real insult, it's more about disdain, and it cannot be flagged (they are not stupid, you know). | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 5:08 | comment | added | Quidam | "If you come across any such comments, please flag as "too chatty" or "offensive". They will be removed. Rude behaviour is not allowed on SO, irrespective of reputation. " It doesn't work, as the rudeness is sometimes shared between several comments from separate question, and is not always something that you could demonstrate. I had bullying users who wanted to demonstrate that everything I was saying was wrong, even when quoting Oxford etc, it's a form of bullying, but can't be demonstrated. Arrogant comments are the same. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 7:24 | comment | added | Stephen C | Indeed. Demanding that people justify downvotes is itself rude. | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 5:41 | comment | added | user177800 | there is no requirement to comment on voting period. trying to shame those you do not agree with by characterizing not commenting as rude is the real hubris. | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 8:49 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2014 at 8:38 | history | edited | Infinite Recursion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2014 at 5:22 | comment | added | Infinite Recursion | If you come across any such comments, please flag as "too chatty" or "offensive". They will be removed. Rude behaviour is not allowed on SO, irrespective of reputation. You have recently gained the priviledge to flag at 15 rep, use it well. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 5:05 | history | answered | ValarMorghulis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |