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To be honest, StackOverflowStack Overflow is starting to make me mad.

There's clearly a reputation-focused community that intimidates novice users. I have seen entire comment threads on a question evaluating its upvotes instead of offering answers. I have seen comments belitting askers, because their question already exists in the 1,700,000 StackOverflowposts Stack Overflow database. I see decent questions dismissed, downvoted, closed, or whatever as a "simple maintenance action" on StackOverflowStack Overflow - an action, I think, is very dispelling to novice users who are just trying to get their StackOverflowStack Overflow feet wet.

What is happening? We are punishing people for trying to join in the conversation!

To be honest, StackOverflow is starting to make me mad.

There's clearly a reputation-focused community that intimidates novice users. I have seen entire comment threads on a question evaluating its upvotes instead of offering answers. I have seen comments belitting askers because their question already exists in the 1,700,000 StackOverflow database. I see decent questions dismissed, downvoted, closed, or whatever as a "simple maintenance action" on StackOverflow - an action, I think, is very dispelling to novice users who are just trying to get their StackOverflow feet wet.

What is happening? We are punishing people for trying to join in the conversation!

To be honest, Stack Overflow is starting to make me mad.

There's clearly a reputation-focused community that intimidates novice users. I have seen entire comment threads on a question evaluating its upvotes instead of offering answers. I have seen comments belitting askers, because their question already exists in the 1,700,000 posts Stack Overflow database. I see decent questions dismissed, downvoted, closed, or whatever as a "simple maintenance action" on Stack Overflow - an action, I think, is very dispelling to novice users who are just trying to get their Stack Overflow feet wet.

What is happening? We are punishing people for trying to join in the conversation!

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To be honest, StackOverflow is starting to make me mad.

There's clearly a reputation-focused community that intimidates novice users. I have seen entire comment threads on a question evaluating its upvotes instead of offering answers. I have seen comments belitting askers because their question already exists in the 1,700,000 StackOverflow database. I see decent questions dismissed, downvoted, closed, or whatever as a "simple maintenance action" on StackOverflow - an action, I think, is very dispelling to novice users who are just trying to get their StackOverflow feet wet.

What is happening? We are punishing people for trying to join in the conversation!