You should bring that up on meta.stackoverflow.com if that ever happens again. Like I said, I comment a lot and I’ve never had a comment deleted or seen one that was deleted without being mean, spam, or a troll. And even in those cases the rules are fairly relaxed.
Yep, they do. Look at the second option here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?hl=en
stack overflow can be a pain in the ass, hate to post any questions there and have pretty much quit doing so…you always have to rework the title.
But every so often you can google a good result out of them.
I go to sitepoint forums instead 
I was on a quest to add Facebook/Twitter API to my website and since Sitepoint didn’t have this, I turned to StackOverflow. Eventually got banned because I made too many threads (all different questions).
They constantly say there are similar threads but the similarities only were in the title! My code was completely different and even if the code WAS comparable, I specifically said I was a beginner at this and I wouldn’t be able to just receive a theorized response and implement it - I’d need spoon feeding or direct links.
Anyway, I got banned. I dislike the place.
They constantly say there are similar threads but the similarities only were in the title! My code was completely different and even if the code WAS comparable, I specifically said I was a beginner at this and I wouldn’t be able to just receive a theorized response and implement
This is irrelevant on SO. Like I said earlier, it’s not a site who’s purpose is to help you learn. It’s to find answers to coding problems. Whether or not you understood the answers is not the purpose of the site. It muddies the water and makes it harder to find the better more accepted answers.
In their point of view, they want programmers to find the answer that best solves the problem when you Google it or when you search on the site. They don’t want you to find the answer where they are having to walk someone else through understanding the problem step by step and learning how to code. That only helps the person in the thread, not the other 2,000 people coming in later with the same question. That’s where places like Sitepoint come in.
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But to do that you’d need to include your entire list of sites to exclude every single time you enter a search. What is needed is a way of recording all of the sites to exclude once so that they will be excluded from all your future searches. Of course you’d have to be logged in for it to work.
I tend to ignore SO unless I’m extremely desperate for a solution and at the end of my rope. And only then if I would need to write a double post to explain all the specific details of my situation. eg. OS, intstalled apps with their config, browsers with any installed plugins/extensions and their configs etc. Else, SitePoint is the place. Not that all of my problems always get solved here, but usually someone will see what I’ve missed, ask me the right questions, or at least point me in the right direction.
That’s the problem with SO answers. The problem might have similarities, but the details make all the difference and what’s the best answer for that OP doesn’t apply to me.
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Maybe I should have if I wanted to become their member badly enough, which wasn’t the case. I was just trying to see what it was all about and if I enjoyed it then I might have become a regular member naturally. It’s just not worth my time trying to clear things out with their moderators. I simply chose to move on.
I never had a problem with SO; none of my answers were modified ( except for very small mistakes ) or removed and I still find it helpful.
The reason I no longer post was I spent a lot of time on replies to two users in different threads and they did not even bother to reply.
I believe in forum etiquette and am disappointed there is not an ignore user option here. There was not one on SO either.
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What is needed is a way of recording all of the sites to exclude once
There are plugins that do this.
Tho, I think people should address why they are hiding SO answers before hiding them. SO is a godsend for me. Especially for Scala where the resources are sparse.