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Done and redone but it's been a long time coming and it's my turn : fuck you StackOverflow.

I've been a member for a few years, and I hate the elitist idiotic community. Some people are there to help, most of them are just there to wank on their reputation.

Whenever you ask a question that is tiny bit specific, you are almost certain to have a vote to close it because "it's too vague" -even though I spent 30mn writing it with comprehensive examples, clean formatting and other users understood it perfectly as demonstrated by their comments trying to help- or any other reason that scream "I didn't understand the question or don't have the answer therefore it's a bad question"

If you are "lucky", a power user will just mark it as duplicate of another question that barely uses the same stack as yours and has one keyword in common because this illiterate fuck couldn't bother to read the full question detailing why it's not a duplicate but, oh surprise, the question they referred yours too already has an accepted answer by themselves. Abusing their reputation-bestowed powers to reference themselves for some more reputation.

Now that I am over 1k in reputation and have all 3 colours of badges, it seems like it warrants a bit more attention from the swarm and it doesn't happen as often. Which is appalling in itself, basically if you don't have enough shinys, your are considered a worthless piece of crap barely tolerated to ask questions.

The fact that big reputation users have so much power and can absolutely not be held accountable for their abusive behaviour is a recipe for power abuse

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    Yeap...... I even got banned from helping someone in Stackoverflow on topic "How to signalling in webrtc android."
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    Aren't all large online group projects like this to a greater or lesser extent? I mean, you're not wrong about the StackExchange sites, but honestly they're a utopia compared to Wikipedia or Tvdb. Gather any sufficient number of humans under one banner and it's inevitable that sooner or later you'll reach a critical mass of shitbags and it quickly goes to hell. That's why I don't work on group projects anymore, I'd rather work three times harder to do it all myself than deal with that shit. Our species is a blight, plain and simple.
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    @RogueScholar I don't know about wikipedia but yeah, you're right about the general toxicity of large groups. The problem on SO is the system not only allows for toxicity, it also enables power trips on an industrial scale and rewards toxicity when you have enough reputation.
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