Timeline for answer to The rudeness on Stack Overflow is too damn high by Anonymous Coward
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| Jan 31, 2023 at 0:30 | comment | added | mtraceur | We are absolutely the customers of StackOverflow. Customer and product are not mutually exclusive. We pay with our time and effort providing quality Q&A, with our trust that this place will have quality answers, by recommending this site to other people, and in all other ways that can be monetized. Either way, ontological taxonomy of customer vs product is irrelevant. What's relevant is that this site relies on people with questions trusting this place to be worth turning to for answers with up-to-date relevance. The people being called out forget that treating askers poorly has a cost. | |
| Jun 9, 2018 at 6:18 | history | edited | Anonymous Coward | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2018 at 6:16 | comment | added | Anonymous Coward | @agc I see your point. I'll edit that. I hope nobody thinks I am being rude to myself. | |
| Jun 9, 2018 at 3:38 | comment | added | agc | @JoseAntonioDuraOlmos, No, sorry, that 2nd person "your question... unless you..." style is needlessly (and obliviously) disrespectful. Better style: "This question requires several improvements before it can meet SE publication standards". Please note how the lack of a certain pronoun makes it less about egos and behavior, the better to focus on content. | |
| Jun 8, 2018 at 19:59 | comment | added | Anonymous Coward | @agc I agree with you. Everyone should be treated with respect. Don't expect the customer treatment though. A customer's ideas and suggestions would be treated with much delicacy and care as long as they keep paying even if they are BAD (in the customer environment, not saying that customers get such preferential treatment in Q&A site). Do not expect that for the ideas you write in Q&A site. "Your question is so bad that it should be blocked from ever receiving answers unless you improve it" is perceived as rude by many but is standard etiquette in SO. | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 20:14 | comment | added | agc | Re " perception of rudeness stems from misunderstanding ... You are the product.": even supposing that to be true, the fact that a person is a product wouldn't make them less of a person in any way whatsoever. Denying any person anywhere their due respect as a fellow human being is rude. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 6:40 | comment | added | Paul | I think this answer derails the conversation by unnecessarily focusing on a single word in OP's question. What's more, it devalues people by reducing them to a mere product, in order to justify bad behavior towards them. When paired with comments like "please, don't waste our time" above, it basically serves as yet another example of what OP is talking about. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 16:23 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @JoseAntonioDuraOlmos Uhm. The question is not facetious. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 16:19 | comment | added | Anonymous Coward | @KonradRudolph I had upvoted your question, but now that I know you are being partly facetious I'd downvote it if I had the chance. Please, don't waste our time. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 9:07 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | “Your perception of rudeness stems from misunderstanding your position in Stack Overflow” — No. I was being facetious when using the phrase “customer”. Maybe that didn’t come across. I think your post doesn’t add much, if anything, to the discussion here: while you might have a point, this doesn’t pertain to my complaint. But you also don’t have a point: In contrast to platforms such as Facebook, Stack Overflow has made its priorities, and its commitment to Q&A, very clear and very credible. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 6:57 | comment | added | Anonymous Coward | @Alex I don't mind. But where? Should I convert all line breaks to paragraph breaks? Maybe I should convert some line breaks to not break at all and merge into a single line? My paragraph breaks separate what I view as the three sections of my answer: 1.- The quote 2.- What you are not 3.- What you really are and what you get for it. | |
| Jul 25, 2017 at 23:31 | comment | added | user6655984 | Do you mind changing line breaks to paragraph breaks in your post? (Compare it with other answer.) Paragraph breaks are created by leaving a line empty. Misused line breaks make me unhappy. :( | |
| Jul 25, 2017 at 19:22 | history | edited | Anonymous Coward | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 25, 2017 at 19:20 | comment | added | NathanOliver | Ah, OK. That makes a lot more sense | |
| Jul 25, 2017 at 19:19 | comment | added | Anonymous Coward | @NathanOliver I will have to reword this. I see what you must have understood, but I am not saying that customers get preferential treatment in the Q&A site. Rather was talking "customer questions" (through e-mail, phone or whatever, but not through Q&A). | |
| Jul 25, 2017 at 19:16 | comment | added | NathanOliver | A question by such customer will not be met with deletion even if it is a bad question. I have never seen this. Do you have an example of this? | |
| Jul 25, 2017 at 19:13 | history | answered | Anonymous Coward | CC BY-SA 3.0 |