| ▲ | Sammi 3 hours ago |
| How good are the questions? |
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| ▲ | jl6 a minute ago | parent | next [-] |
| Here’s one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79981854/how-to-run-mode... -5 points, closed as not related to software development. It’s not a particularly great question, but clearly a bunch of people were more interested in keeping their garden tidy than in helping someone learn. |
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| ▲ | NewsaHackO 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is why people use AI so heavily. Because no matter how bad or ill formed a question is, it wo answer it the most "caring" way possible, and never berate you for it being a stupid question, common sense, etc (as long as it is about some forbidden topic of course) |
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| ▲ | Grombobulous 14 minutes ago | parent [-] | | On top of that, the AI will take a plain no-context error message and give it a college try to figure it out. A lot of times it will be right. On SO that experience is going to be “we closed this because you didn’t form a good question.” And of course, that’s true, but it demonstrates the wide gulf in user experience between the two platforms. |
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| ▲ | evilduck 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Does it matter? A site and community that refuses to allow or accommodate anyone to grow and learn as a new user will quickly run out of users. The gatekeeping on SO is a blockade, not a teaching mechanism. |
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| ▲ | sfn42 an hour ago | parent [-] | | How else do you help people learn if not by giving feedback? As an avid helper in a programming related discord channel I need you to understand that a lot of the people who come to these places for help are incredibly stupid. It's not uncommon to have to converse with a person for 15+ minutes just to get them to give you enough information to understand what their problem is. Like they will just paste an error message or a big incomplete block of code and say "help". What are you trying to do? What isn't working? How is it not working? They don't understand that we need information to help them. They will get offended when you ask them to elaborate. They won't understand the answer no matter how much you simplify it. They just want their problem solved with the least possible amount of effort on their part. | | |
| ▲ | evilduck 26 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You just described the complete opposite of the StackOverflow experience. | | |
| ▲ | Grombobulous 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I disagree. Here’s an example: my account on StackOveflow has enough reputation to answer questions on SO, but on other StackExchange sites that are very related I can’t do that just because I spent more time on StackOverflow. The whole setup is basically repelling you from engaging by design. The site should already know from my SO reputation that I’m trustworthy enough to answer stuff on the other similar tech related stackexchange sites. It was built for a time when you actually needed to filter out low quality questions and answers, but now that the users have abandoned the ecosystem the bouncer at the door makes a whole lot less sense. |
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| ▲ | xeromal 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why do questions need to be good? Often times, you don't know what you don't know. |
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