Comment by Gustavo Benedito Costa on "Hashnode vs StackOverflow?"

If you want TL;DR, go to "Comparison of Stack and Hashnode".

In a general way, Stack individual believes in a logic of total competition, rather than a logic of collaboration. In the logic of competition, the identification of the opponent is fundamental for him. The opponent, by exclusion, is anyone who is different from myself, or at least from the idealized image I have of myself.

In addition, those newcomers and junior programmers have their status legitimated in the Stack inidiviual's mind as the weak and losers of open competition with whom they do not wish to identify. They are a kind of natural "trash" of the Stack system.

Due to the Stack system, there are also those who adhere to the cause by selfish and conjectural defence of their immediate individual interests, which is nevertheless legitimate, though occasionally immoral, depending on the point of view.

For all this, Stack restricts the knowledge only to high-ranked privileged senior professionals because they do not like to have much competition, but they are also too competitive because they believe in the logic of competition, therefore, they tend to be right wing, conservative and do not admit the existence of many newcomers and junior programmers the which they see as a menace in their market.

Comparison of Stack and Hashnode

Stack is newbie-hostile.
Hashnode is newbie-friendly.
Stack is competitive, individualist so tends to be closed-minded and right-oriented.
Hashnode is collaborative, collectivist, so tends to open-minded and left-oriented.
Stack is elitist and privilegist. It hates newbies and junior programmers. It is overly xenophobic.
Hashnode is open for all.
Stack moderators are authoritarians and impatient, ban everybody without reasons.
Hashnode moderators are supporters of freedom of speech, although Code of Conduct is required, and they are patient.
Stack developers do not hear feedback, censure, close and ban feedbackers.
Hashnode developers hear feedback, implement, improve and welcome feedback.
Stack has upvote and downvote system. If your question is downvoted many times, you will get banned.
Hashnode does not have this caste system.
Stack is Palpatine.
Hashnode is Yoda/Luke Skywalker.
Stack is Sith.
Hashnode is Jedi.
Stack is Galactic Empire.
Hashnode is New Galactic Republic.

Loved this comparison, Gustavo Benedito Costa. :)

This is pretty much the opposite of my experience with SO.

@Trent Haynes, if you were newbie or acted like a newbie in among 2016 and 2018, your reality would be different. You just can't deny it. Denialism or negationism are not good.

I don't think it is valid to compare hasnode vs stack. Any developer benefits valuable information on stack. If you say i have never used stack for help, it would be a big lie. They have policies, yes but just like govermental laws, they have been put for a reason, avoid clutter, avoid meaningless questions or answers. What is Javascript might be valid queation for stack but if 200 people asked it and discussed several times, your question will be flagged as duplicate. They encourage to search before ask, even with their question form that auto populates when you enter title, asking are you actually asking for one of these. At the same time, if you post an answer without an explanation, or meaningless stuff you would be flagged, or you basically show no effort on researching, trying to solve a problem and say hey how can you create a todo app with react, instead of here is what i did but couldn't get it working, what am i doing wrong, you will be flagged. That's actually, my personal opinion, makes stack reliable. Creates a discussion platform that helps you to see different ways of doing something. I personally owe a lot stackoverflow about my knowledge.

Hashnode is on the other hand gives you more freedom about your ideas, thoughts about anything as a social platform. It does have policies but not strict as you would see in stack. It has DM and AMAs which gives you an opportunity to contact someone directly. To me they are both fruits but apples and oranges.

If Stackoverflow is that cut throat up/down vote system, Isn't it the same as that Reddit crap lol?

Beginner questions are totally welcome on Stackoverflow. It's just that all the beginner questions were already asked a decade ago, and duplicates are not allowed. That's just strict, not elitist.

If Stackoverflow is that cut throat up/down vote system, Isn't it the same as that Reddit crap lol?

Not necessarily. Voting system in SO defines how reliable answer is. Just because you are doing something that way, doesn't mean that's correct or the only way. If your solution/answer is reliable, then other developers positive vote also will help future visitors to determine which answer(s) are actually solving the problem in different ways, which ones are totally bs or doesn't even have any idea.

This also affects your reputation in SO. So if you don't know something, you wouldn't just post an answer. You may get down voted which also will take down your reputation. It is like visual representation of your experience and knowledge. How much do you actually know what you are talking about.

a quick example : stackoverflow.com/questions/13102045/scanner-is-s…

accepted answer is well detailed and person really answered what user is asking for stackoverflow.com/a/13102066/1911146

but meanwhile someone just posted an wrong answer also with no explanation stackoverflow.com/a/29030658/1911146

This is absolutely incorrect. nextInt() won't consume the newline, regardless of whether it's in a "new" Scanner or an already used one. – Dawood ibn Kareem Dec 29 '16 at 20:55

Gustavo Benedito Costa It has nothing to do with denial. Your experience is the opposite of my experience. Perhaps it is because I don't assume I already know the rules. Perhaps it is because I usually lurk long before I post. Perhaps it is because I actively seek out the unwritten rules of a community before I try to participate in a community.

Regardless of the reason, your experience is the opposite of my experience.

Bridget Sarah Perhaps it is like Reddit... Perhaps Hashnode is just like Facebook...

The difference is the audience. If the audience agrees to follow the intended rules, then the voting system isn't really the issue. If you violate the rules for any given community, you will normally get "punished" for it. Even here.

Here you are free to discuss non-technical, but at least tangentially related topics. On SO you are not. Here you can ask the same questions repeatedly. On SO, that probably will get your question flagged or removed.

SO is explicitly crawled by search engines to be completely indexed. The expectation is that you will search for an answer before you ask for an answer.

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