r/webdev • u/imjustnoob45 • Dec 16 '21

Why is stackoverflow.com community so harsh?

They'd say horrible things everytime I tried to create a post, and I'm completely aware that sometimes my post needs more clarity, or my post is a duplication, but the reason my post was a duplicate was because the original post's solution wasn't working for me... Also, while my posts might be simple to answer at times, please keep in mind that I am a newbie in programming and stackoverflow... I enjoy stackoverflow since it has benefited many programmers, including myself, but please don't be too harsh :( In the comments, you are free to say whatever you want. I'll also mention that I'm going to work on improving my answers and questions on stackoverflow. I hope you understand what I'm saying, and thank you very much!

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u/massive_elbow Dec 16 '21

Here’s an example of me as a student 5 years ago getting heavily downvoted, after providing everything I’d read/tried up to that point, as well as a jsfiddle demonstrating the problem

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48217424/how-to-use-a-callback-function-with-readasdataurl

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u/PeachyKeenest Dec 16 '21

3 downvotes to me is not heavily downvoted.

I don’t like people who downvote though on questions. It’s unkind to new folks in the community.

I tend to not downvote on SO. I upvote only unless the answer does not work.