From several months I have been seeing this sort of pattern in blog that whenever a beginner asks a question people down-vote it. Some of their doubts are really genuine but no body answers them straightly. The point of writing this blog is that if someone asks a problem and if the problem is really bad then do down-vote it I'm with you but don't do it unnecessary. Don't let the person who is in learning phase feel that his/her doubt is stupid.
Hope you got it! Take your time before down-voting this:)
Sometimes because they ask something that can easily searched on google.
Sometimes because they have bad styles of coding that unable to help them to find their bugs/errors/...
Sometimes because they dont format or use something for everyone to read/understand/see what they want to ask about and people cant help them
Sometimes because they dont speak as their need help and dont respect other people so no one want to help them
Sometimes because they asked question which has been answered recently
Sometimes because they asked similar problem that can be easily think but they was lazy and asked without trying to do anything
Sometimes because they just asked questions and leave that for someone to answer but not try to do anything to prove that their finished what they asked for, hence wasting the time for ones who try to help them
Sometimes because they try to cheat by asking for their homework, their problems on a live contest...
Sometimes because they cant describe good enough about what they want to be helped
Sometimes because they ask something was on very high than their level, that even if the helper try to help them must spend their time to figure out it then find a way to teach but it is hard and even if the helper can explain it, it is a waste of time when they still not learn anything from the problem
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Looks like you have down-voted a lot of them:D
Yeah! but they will learn slowly. This doesn't means that just down-vote them without telling them what they have written so it doesn't solves their problems and they keep repeating themselves.
In the opposite I was and I am still one of them and having stupid questions before so that was my life-experienced
Once I reply below tourist that he was my idol (actually I just want to say that I very admire him but I didnt know how bad the word
idolis) and getting 450 downvotes in 10 hoursIn my opinion, contribution is not matter, but when it change significantly I need to know what was my mistakes (so that I wont make mistakes again) or what was my good move (so that I can improve more and more)
Sorry man I spoke ill about you in the first comment. After hearing this I'm really confident that people won't misinterpret ones meaning like they did in your case.
Wait what? When did idol become a bad word? I have tried googling but unable to find bad meaning of idol.
I think you would get downvotes even if you told "tourist, you are my inspiration" as your comment was (most probably) unrelated to the blog.
Oh yes, you are correct, thanks for making me understand why people angried about me. p/s: Sorry guys :(
But there still some other guys (upper my level) mention something about idol someone is not good and not having an own way, and I should have my own way in competitive programming
If you are red, then no one will downvote :) people don't like grey and green colours :(
Red rankers can still be downvoted if you notice. But they are more likely to downvote ones who blame on their colors :D
There are multiple reasons of reds being less downvoted:
Ah I see, that sounds painful :'(
Nah~ it was my fault commenting something doesnt related to the blog.
No question is stupid. If some one making blog and asking he generally spent a good amount of time.
Remember when you were little and you'd fall on the trampoline and everyone would keep jumping so you couldn't get back up? :)
Sometimes they just don't like the color grey D:
Or downvote people who blame it on their color ;)
#GreyLivesMatter
I agree. That's why Stack Overflow ( that site's lit ) offers a sort of FAQ/Guide to ask questions and everything. Can anything like that be done here?
bad spelling
They're weak in coding not spellings, right?
Somehow those two tend to largely correlate
Bro CodeChef Is the best place for Beginners, If you want proof look at my blogs in both CodeChef and code forces. Here I got downvotes whereas in CodeChef I got answers to such questions only. But sometimes I feel code forces is only correct because people should not ask how to debug my code. kinds of things. Asking the algorithm is ok but pasting your code and asking where am I wrong isn't a good thing because debugging is the sole responsibility of the person who writes the code.
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people who downvoted this are blind for sure. They are not able to identify the truth even when shown with proofs.
I'm not blind, but I still disagree
Maybe their questions are not valueable.
And some of them maybe should read this first.
I just read the link. It's awesome. BUT I think this should be given in the blog section i.e. when someone is going to write a blog then there should be this link that says: "Please read this if you are asking a question" or "How to ask a good question" just like the way it is in Stackoverflow. MikeMirzayanov Can you please Look on this suggestion.
For participating in a contest, without reading its rule.
For programming in some language, without reading any textbook or documentation about it.
For using some tool, without reading its documentation.
For asking in English, but with totally broken and unreadable grammar.
Programming is a process explaining your idea to a compiler. Writing a blog is a process explaining your idea to other people. So if you are bad at one of them, you are likely bad at another. A blog with broken grammar just annoys everyone.
i = i++ + i++annoys a compiler likewise.But some people's english inherently isn't that good... eg. it isn't their first language, etc etc..
Use Grammarly, it's free and it has an extension for almost all browsers.