Comment by lloydatkinson
5 years ago
After a long time spending my free time helping out in the C# discord before leaving due to extreme ego and staff cliques and then more recently the Vue discord and getting nothing but grief in return and zero thanks for the 4 years helping on the Vue discord after a couple of moderators unfortunately became jealous at my message count in comparison to them (yeah, immature as hell), I couldn't agree more.
What a waste of time that was. I, along with practically every other person helping out, would get little to no thanks.
A further frustration is the fact that the same poor questions get asked over and over and over it becomes totally demoralising. They don't google anything.
I would say the vast majority of "programming discord servers" are complete cringefests with people wildly incapable of helping others somehow with roles like "helper" and "moderator". It's exhausting. I think I prefer just talking to friends and spending time on smaller servers now. The above issues and people have worn down my good will and patience. It will take me a while to recharge.
When some 15 year old with a role like "Super Helper ++" starts trying to correct an experienced software developer, and then banning said software developer because they disagreed with them, something is very wrong. Unfortunately such scenarios are incredibly common, believe it or not.
The C# discord became a lot better after lloyd left due to his "extreme ego" lol.
"if it seems like it's everyone else, then it's probably you"
This individual targets people online with abuse that were once part of aforementioned server. I hope they get the help they need one day.
You can't attack another user like that here. I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with.