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londos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can also ask basic, repetitive questions framed exactly to my use case without getting yelled at that the question has been asked and answered before.
dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As if that excuses their behavior on a forum dedicated to learning and solving problems?
Everyone gets annoyed at oft-repeated questions. But the answer is moderation, which is also unpaid.
Not vitriol and skullduggery.
lud@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I have never even considered asking a question for that reason.
gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
and then be provided with a solution of a 10 years old tech that is barely applicable today. But if you read all the answers you may find an up to date suggestion in the comments of a non-accepted answer.
realharo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Honestly this is not bad, if it solves your problem and it took less than 10 minutes of reading overall.
gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I’m not against learning or understanding the nature of the issue so that I’m in position to form a correct solution. But I find it kinda funny that topics are locked with “duplicate”, and the question linked has for example an accepted answer written in PHP5. I believe that SO should invent a way that such cases can be updated without the current “hacks”. Now, even if somebody puts the effort to write an up-to-date answer, it will be at the end of answers and it will take a lot of time, if ever, to reach a higher position. Also the “accepted” answer will always be the old one.
Another issue is that in some cases, the accepted answer becomes a wiki. Edit upon edit by users with required reputation adding new up-to-date info. In the end the answer is nothing close to what the original answer was, but it keeps the originally acquired score. So it can reach to a case that you see a +100 upvoted answer, which in fact has only been proof-read by 2-3 people, the ones that are needed to accept the edited answer.
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 year ago
Then if you try to provide a modern solution, get yelled at because ‘not everyone is using the latest version’ even though the modern solution works on everything newer than about 8 years.