{"id":764,"date":"2018-11-12T20:08:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/?p=764"},"modified":"2018-11-12T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:08:31","slug":"i-dont-like-stack-exchange-lateefa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/2018\/11\/12\/i-dont-like-stack-exchange-lateefa\/","title":{"rendered":"I don’t like Stack Exchange – Lateefa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have never used Stack Exchange before (besides google searches\nthat lead me to Stack Overflow) so my expectations were a little bit too high I\nwould say. My initial assumption about Stack Exchange was that it seemed like\nit was Reddit, just different. I went in face-first and just opened different Stack\nExchange tabs that aligned to my interests\/skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked around a lot of the sites that I thought I could be\nuseful in (Game Development, Arqade, SciFi, etc) only to realize they were\neither dead or had questions that were way too complicated for me to actually\nanswer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I dug through countless tags on Arqade just trying to find\nsomething I could contribute to as I thought that\u2019s where most of my knowledge\nwas. (spoiler alert: turns out I\u2019m not knowledgeable enough). Most of the posts\non the front page were all about Minecraft, something I never got into while\nanything else was months old which lead me to believe that the page is somewhat\ndead. I decided to check back later for new posts, as I might be lucky and find\na new question that was not about Minecraft and I did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone had asked a very detailed question about creating\nvideo games for the elderly and how from his experience they were always geared\ntowards a certain genre of videogames. This person had asked a question that\ndid not quite belong on the Arqade page but rather the Game Development one. So,\nI took it upon myself to redirect them to the other page because they are more\nlikely to find a response there and it was mainly off-topic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After profusely refreshing the page waiting for those points\nto start pouring in, I was hit with a downvote. \u00a0Needless to say, I was both angry and confused,\nI just helped out this guy immediately after he asked for help, but I was being\ndownvoted instead of thanked? I checked and found that he had responded with\nsomething along the lines of \u201cgood idea.\u201d A couple minutes later and I got\nanother downvote. I am still both confused and angry but mainly confused as I\nclearly helped someone out who acknowledged my help, yet I was still getting\ndownvoted. I got a notification that warned me that my post would be removed if\none more person downvoted me, and they did. I was hit with the 3 downvotes and\nmy answer was removed (Which is why I can\u2019t post a screenshot.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t know if he enjoyed his eggs, he never replied.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I carried my anger and confusion over to another page, Seasoned\nAdvice which is meant for culinary work and found myself just digging for\nanything I could answer. I eventually stumbled upon someone who was looking for\na specific fried egg recipe, with the information he had given it took me\nseconds to find the exact page he was looking for. As I commented on his post\nwith the link(response seen below), I found myself eagerly waiting for his\nresponse, his approval of my comment. I needed to redeem myself from what\nhappened at Arqade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is yet to respond. Instead, I had a mod and another\nrandom person just scold me for giving a link as an answer. That it was not\nacceptable to just post a link even though the person was looking for a link,\ninstead I am expected to rewrite the information from the link to an entire\npost just in case that link dies one day. As much as that argument makes sense,\nI don\u2019t understand why that responsibility falls on me, the person answering\nrather than the person asking the questions. Mainly I do not see why I should\nbe responsible to make sure HIS post is archivable through my answer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also checked out the chatrooms in hopes of finding a place\nto have some sort of discussion rather than just answering or posing questions,\nbut I was not allowed to participate in any chat rooms due to not having enough\npoints; which I found to be counterproductive as I lost my inclination to be involved\non that platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing that struck me about Stack Exchange in general is\nthat it is not really a place that allows for discussion, something I did not know\nbefore using it. The lack of freedom to discuss made me uncomfortable, I\nconstantly felt like if I had half an answer or my answer was wrong then there\nwas no room for me to exist on that platform without being heavily scrutinized.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As much as this experience was valuable, I don’t think I ever want to use Stack Exchange again, people are too mean. (Feel free to try convincing me otherwise.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have never used Stack Exchange before (besides google searches that lead me to Stack Overflow) so my expectations were a little bit too high I would say. My initial assumption about Stack Exchange was that it seemed like it was Reddit, just different. I went in face-first and just opened different Stack Exchange tabs …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}