<p>I see a lot of programming questions here. I remind people that programming questions are off-topic here, that they <em>could</em> be useful for Stack Overflow, and that the requirements are a minimal working example and a description of desired output. 3 or 4 times now, I presume these people are terribly irate about this and serial downvote all my questions and answers, even across different SE networks. I try not to be rude when I comment, but clear enough so that their question can be fleshed out and get useful answers somewhere else.</p>

<p>I presume they're trying to get my account locked. Do I keep out of it? Do I just cast a close vote and move on? What have others done? </p>
