I am one who sees SO as unwelcoming. I struggle with language but I try really hard to make sure all the details are included that need to be there when asking my question. If it's error code on 43, I pull all the code that is not related to that and rerun the program to generate the same error but on a line that will work for SO. No one wants to go through the entire stack of my problems.

With all that said, I still am hesitant to even post on SO because of the toxic culture that's been breeding here.

1. Every question that has been asked before is marked as a duplicate. How does someone that is new to the community even get started here if you're required to ask a question just to be able to contribute? Eventually everything will be asked and answered and SO will be a static site for answers, right? (This seems really dumb but I wanted to actually start using SO at one point and had to come up with some sort of question)
2. Asking a good question but not using the best practices (or standard_naming_convention) in the code gets elitist up tight and earns down votes. And when I say elitists, I'm talking people with more than 20k rep who should be community leaders. Never mind that there's an edit button that even I can click for your post. (149 rep editing someone I voted for >.> -- o.0 wonder if it will even count with the recent down vote putting me below the threshold).
3. Things getting left unanswered because it isn't worth anyone's time to try find a solution. No one wants to do another person's homework. But at some point all of these questions are "homework," especially given the last 6 months in the world.
4. Down voting without any explanation for growth or development to help improve the quality of the content posted by its users. It's just a festering group of negativity.

I am one who sees Stack Overflow as unwelcoming. I struggle with language, but I try really hard to make sure all the details are included that need to be there when asking my question. If it's error code on 43, I pull all the code that is not related to that and rerun the program to generate the same error but on a line that will work for Stack Overflow. No one wants to go through the entire stack of my problems.

With all that said, I still am hesitant to even post on Stack Overflow because of the toxic culture that's been breeding here.

1. Every question that has been asked before is marked as a duplicate. How does someone that is new to the community even get started here if you're required to ask a question just to be able to contribute? Eventually everything will be asked and answered and Stack Overflow will be a static site for answers, right? (This seems really dumb but I wanted to actually start using Stack Overflow at one point and had to come up with some sort of question)
2. Asking a good question but not using the best practices (or standard_naming_convention) in the code gets elitist up tight and earns downvotes. And when I say elitists, I'm talking people with more than 20k rep who should be community leaders. Never mind that there's an edit button that even I can click for your post. (149 reputation points editing someone I voted for >.> -- o.0 wonder if it will even count with the recent downvote putting me below the threshold).
3. Things getting left unanswered because it isn't worth anyone's time to try find a solution. No one wants to do another person's homework. But at some point all of these questions are "homework," especially given the last 6 months in the world.
4. Downvoting without any explanation for growth or development to help improve the quality of the content posted by its users. It's just a festering group of negativity.

This thread is old -- but I was allowed to vote and you had it linked.

I am one who sees SO as unwelcoming. I struggle with language but I try really hard to make sure all the details are included that need to be there when asking my question. If it's error code on 43, I pull all the code that is not related to that and rerun the program to generate the same error but on a line that will work for SO. No one wants to go through the entire stack of my problems.

With all that said, I still am hesitant to even post on SO because of the toxic culture that's been breeding here.

1. Every question that has been asked before is marked as a duplicate. How does someone that is new to the community even get started here if you're required to ask a question just to be able to contribute? Eventually everything will be asked and answered and SO will be a static site for answers, right? (This seems really dumb but I wanted to actually start using SO at one point and had to come up with some sort of question)
2. Asking a good question but not using the best practices (or standard_naming_convention) in the code gets elitist up tight and earns down votes. And when I say elitists, I'm talking people with more than 20k rep who should be community leaders. Never mind that there's an edit button that even I can click for your post. (149 rep editing someone I voted for >.> -- o.0 wonder if it will even count with the recent down vote putting me below the threshold).
3. Things getting left unanswered because it isn't worth anyone's time to try find a solution. No one wants to do another person's homework. But at some point all of these questions are "homework," especially given the last 6 months in the world.
4. Down voting without any explanation for growth or development to help improve the quality of the content posted by its users. It's just a festering group of negativity.

I am one who sees SO as unwelcoming. I struggle with language but I try really hard to make sure all the details are included that need to be there when asking my question. If it's error code on 43, I pull all the code that is not related to that and rerun the program to generate the same error but on a line that will work for SO. No one wants to go through the entire stack of my problems.

With all that said, I still am hesitant to even post on SO because of the toxic culture that's been breeding here.

1. Every question that has been asked before is marked as a duplicate. How does someone that is new to the community even get started here if you're required to ask a question just to be able to contribute? Eventually everything will be asked and answered and SO will be a static site for answers, right? (This seems really dumb but I wanted to actually start using SO at one point and had to come up with some sort of question)
2. Asking a good question but not using the best practices (or standard_naming_convention) in the code gets elitist up tight and earns down votes. And when I say elitists, I'm talking people with more than 20k rep who should be community leaders. Never mind that there's an edit button that even I can click for your post. (149 rep editing someone I voted for >.> -- o.0 wonder if it will even count with the recent down vote putting me below the threshold).
3. Things getting left unanswered because it isn't worth anyone's time to try find a solution. No one wants to do another person's homework. But at some point all of these questions are "homework," especially given the last 6 months in the world.
4. Down voting without any explanation for growth or development to help improve the quality of the content posted by its users. It's just a festering group of negativity.