People asked questions on Stackoverflow? There was an answer to 95% of the relevant questions already, and if there wasn’t, well, I didn’t think somebody would come up with the correct answer before my deadline.
years of people asking questions and getting ridiculed eventually getting an answer weeks or months or years later is how there were 95% of the relevant answers
certain niche questions would get responses pretty fast, and yea not all the responses or even most of them were useless. but sometimes a single comment asking “did u check xyz” can be like “oh shit now ik the issue”
im not saying its not annoying that people just dont seem to search before asking a lot of the times. but seeing them is part of that free labor, and u can just ignore. i provide help in forums and just ignore when someone asks an exact question already answered and easy to search (cases where its not exact i might say something) (also ig search engines suck now so idk how to think about that but we arent talking right now anyways)
Yeah, people adding to your workload as an unpaid worker is annoying…
Some further context: I did answer a handful stackoverflow questions some years ago. No, I never complained to anybody about people asking dumb questions or whatever. But actually coming up with answers was real work and not easy, even though I was knowledgeable in the topics I answered questions in. In fact, it was too much work for me, and I stopped doing it.
So I am generally sympathetic to anybody who takes the time to do it.
People asked questions on Stackoverflow? There was an answer to 95% of the relevant questions already, and if there wasn’t, well, I didn’t think somebody would come up with the correct answer before my deadline.
years of people asking questions and getting ridiculed eventually getting an answer weeks or months or years later is how there were 95% of the relevant answers
certain niche questions would get responses pretty fast, and yea not all the responses or even most of them were useless. but sometimes a single comment asking “did u check xyz” can be like “oh shit now ik the issue”
I don’t know man… If I were to provide free labor I would also be pissed if people kept asking the same questions again and again
EDIT: mind you, I am talking using the site in about ~2014, and the number of answered questions has obviously just increased after that
im not saying its not annoying that people just dont seem to search before asking a lot of the times. but seeing them is part of that free labor, and u can just ignore. i provide help in forums and just ignore when someone asks an exact question already answered and easy to search (cases where its not exact i might say something) (also ig search engines suck now so idk how to think about that but we arent talking right now anyways)
Yeah, people adding to your workload as an unpaid worker is annoying…
Some further context: I did answer a handful stackoverflow questions some years ago. No, I never complained to anybody about people asking dumb questions or whatever. But actually coming up with answers was real work and not easy, even though I was knowledgeable in the topics I answered questions in. In fact, it was too much work for me, and I stopped doing it.
So I am generally sympathetic to anybody who takes the time to do it.
But you aren’t getting paid to pay attention to every single question you come across, so just ignore the repeats…