After months of growing attacks via Stack Overflow by a small group of people using many anonymous accounts, some powerful up to moderators and thus administrators, despising me constantly, being insulted and hatred for my civil as well as my hebrew name, without knowing why, I decided to delete my account.
It was just recreative, except that. I have been coding for 37 years. I had fun for 2 years, learning a little instead of reading books, and helping others successfully. I had yet reached more than 9300 points and improved my English, despite interruptions and idiots. So much for that and too bad.
I lived 35 years without SO: I don't need SO and neither do SO need me. I mean before 2019, I never used this website, and I never clicked on any of its links, because I didn't need it ; but one day I signed up, telling myself that it might be nice to help colleagues. But a minority of regulars kidded me openly with the agreement of the supervisors ...
The bad and toxic reputation of this website is really founded and worse than that. They said it was not a "democracy". Indeed, this place, because of this small group, is more a matter of military and prison than of computing friendliness and professionalism. Many articles on this subject are available online, like for example:
- Stack Overflow Culture
- What a very bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community
- Stack Overflow isn’t very welcoming. It’s time for that to change
- The Best and Worst Ways to Use Stack Overflow
- Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late
- The decline of Stack Overflow
The deletion of the account is effective within 24 hours and the total ban of this organization on my PC will be done after verification.
Nothing could be simpler to block websites on a computer:
- Install URL Disabler to not go there
- Hide them from searches in Firefox
- Same for Chrome
Otherwise there are some firewalls and dedicated software.
People can be so stupid and so wicked.
