Have you deleted your StackOverflow account due to being unfairly treated?

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It's not exactly news, new users getting harassed, downvoted without any explanation and generally feeling unwelcome in SO but I believe I've had my fair share of it already. I'm just a step from scrapping my account and all my input there (as far as I can) and close the door behind. Have you had similar experiences/grievances?

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Someone rage-quits SO every day. New users aren't "harassed", which implies a level of targeting that isn't really there. It's not "new users" that people are annoyed with, it's "poor questions" and "oh there's a FAQ?!" and "oh you mean I could have Googled that?" that draws peoples' ire.

I've taken multiple breaks from SO. Once because of a beef with a specific user that spiraled out of control on their side (he was ban-hammered for awhile because of it) but that's an outlier.

Search the web: all sorts of people have had similar experiences and grievances. You hear about them because they post about it. It's a tiny fraction of users.

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