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bsder | karma 16587 | avg karma 1.93 · 2019-09-02 19:34:25+00:00

I suspect the author hit the Indian downvote brigades as well. The big issue I currently have with the Stack Overflow is that it seems like it has become some form of "scoring metric" for Indian programmers--presumably the consulting companies like Wipro. As such, if you don't immediately give a positive vote/response to even garbage answers, you get a downvote brigade burying the question. I suspect disallowing Indian IP's would improve Stack Overflow immensely, at this point.

The structural problem I have with Stack Overflow is that there is no way to wipe out outdated answers. There are lots of heavily upvoted answers that were correct but are now wrong, and there is no way to mark that.

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teh_klev | karma 7155 | avg karma 2.47 · 2019-09-02 19:59:47+00:00

Tarring a whole country with the same brush is bordering on racist.

bsder | karma 16587 | avg karma 1.93 · 2019-09-02 20:07:59+00:00

I'm open to better solutions, but whatever solution you propose has to withstand gaming the system since their job probably depends upon it.

One thing that seems to be coming out of these discussions is that a "downvote" doesn't hurt enough.

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cookie_monsta | karma 2128 | avg karma 2.86 · 2019-09-03 00:07:54

No, I think that's pretty much the definition of racist.

bsder | karma 16587 | avg karma 1.93 · 2019-09-03 00:44:43+00:00

I used to blackhole all of Russia for email in order to cut my spam.

So, was that racist?

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dang | karma 18142 | avg karma 0.25 · 2019-09-03 16:17:58

Nationalistic flamebait will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this to HN.