| ▲ | csomar 4 days ago |
| You had me looking through my history. Here is an example from 12 years ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15626760/does-an-idle-my... Granted when I look at that question today, it doesn't make much sense. But 12 years-back me didn't know much better. Let's just say the community was quite hostile to people trying to figure stuff out and learn. |
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| ▲ | culi 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yeah I can definitely see why this might feel hostile to a newbie. But SO explicitly intended to highlight really good well-formed and specific questions. Stuff that other people would be asking and stuff that wouldn't meander too much. It's simply not meant to be a forum for these kinds of questions. I think Reddit would've been a better fit for you |
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| ▲ | eterm 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | That is a specific question. Any more specific and I suspect it would have been closed as too specific to their environment / setup instead. | |
| ▲ | csomar 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't really agree. Programming on our endless tech stack is meandering. And people come in all shapes, forms and level of expertise. I mean, sure, it's their platform, they can do whatever with it. But as an experience developer now, I still rather prefer an open/loose platform to a one that sets me to certain very strict guidelines. Also once you had negative experiences in SoF as a beginner, would you come back later? I didn't. | | |
| ▲ | culi 3 days ago | parent [-] | | > Programming on our endless tech stack is meandering. And people come in all shapes, forms and level of expertise. completely agree > But as an experience developer now, I still rather prefer an open/loose platform to a one that sets me to certain very strict guidelines. And that's also fine. It's just not what I think SO was trying to be. Reddit for those types of questions, HN for broader discussions and news, and SO for well-formed questions seems like a good state of things to me. (Not sure where discord fits in that) |
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| ▲ | zahlman 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Let's just say the community was quite hostile to people trying to figure stuff out and learn. I don't understand how there is supposedly any hostility on display there. |
