I feel like this happened to me recently. I encountered a C++ question that I felt I could contribute an answer to, but it had been closed 10 years earlier.
I opened a meta thread about it, and a helpful high rep user reopened it, only for a bunch of even higher rep users to come in and ruthlessly shut everything down, including deleting the answer I submitted. I've never seen a community so hostile toward someone trying to add value.
I opened a meta thread about it, and a helpful high rep user reopened it, only for a bunch of even higher rep users to come in and ruthlessly shut everything down, including deleting the answer I submitted. I've never seen a community so hostile toward someone trying to add value.
Maybe I really was in the wrong here for trying to reopen that question; you can read the whole thread and judge for yourself: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405099/reopen-c-arg...
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