Timeline for Why the hostility?
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| Jun 11, 2020 at 10:00 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 14, 2013 at 2:28 | comment | added | Hauke Laging | Maybe this is just a technical problem? How about an option that you want to see only questions with an upvote result of x or higher? The questions who make certain experts angry due to the lazyness (or cluelessness) of the asker will not even get to two. This would even make upvotes more valuable: "Upvote a good question to make it reach a broader audience." | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 18:09 | comment | added | Naftuli Kay | "As a long time lurker ServerFault is infamously known for its hostility." - Agreed. Many times, I'll ask a question I have elsewhere simply because I know that here, I'll get screamed at. FYI: I'm a developer who does a lot of sysadmin and networking work. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 14:39 | comment | added | Jenny D | @TheLQ If someone posting on a site for professional sysadmins does not know the basics of using the operating systems they're working with, then I'd say that the latter answer is at the very least not incorrect. And I have seen questions like that here. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 13:53 | comment | added | gWaldo | @tegbains If you never had a problem with John's tone, then that is fine. For you. But many of the posts that I'd seen in the past two years began with him being unnecessarily hostile with no gain. If he had cut out the opinions and only left the actually useful part of his answers, I could not be more pleased with his answers. Yes, I get frustrated with my users, and have to fight the urge to LMGTFY them. But here on SF (where it is not your job), there's absolutely no call to be an ass. If you don't want to answer a question (especially because there is no effort), then DON'T. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 7:11 | comment | added | tegbains | @gWaldo Maybe I am becoming too cranky in my age as SA Consultant, but I never had an issue with John's tone on SO or on the Home Improvement sites. It's very frustrating to experts when people want free information, but only with a minimal effort on their part. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 17:19 | comment | added | TheLQ | @HopelessN00b In those cases, if a user writes answers like "You dumbass, how did you not know to do X" or "If you don't know that you probably shouldn't be a sysadmin" (I actually saw an answer like that before), then they really should be kicked out of the community regardless of their expertise. Attacking others does NOT build a community, it destroys it | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 16:22 | comment | added | gWaldo | I respectfully disagree about John. John is very smart, and an expert in many fields, but his inability to keep his scorn out of his answers greatly decreases the value of his answers. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 14:02 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | It's nice to say you don't agree that removing the professional requirement will drive away expert users, but we've already had a number of high-rep users leave the site because it's not professional enough, or there's too many crap questions. The most recent departee is John Gardeniers. Yes, he often was an ass who wouldn't suffer stupidity, but he was also a seasoned SA, and an expert answerer. The site will suffer for not having him as a resource anymore. He's also not the first to leave for this reason, nor will he be the last. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 9:21 | history | answered | TheLQ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |