Comment on Correcting > Helping

• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  stack overflow

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  • h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    DUPLICATED, CLOSED, etc.

    Joke aside, for an open question I’d prefer posting on Reddit/Lemmy/forums to have an open answer.

    SO is too strict on its policy.

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      for an open question

      That’s clearly not the type of “programming question” mentioned in OP tho

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh god

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There there. I’m not quite god himself yet although I have over 1000 points on stack overflow.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The validation system is extremely off-putting. I have been working on some specialized tools for years so I could have answered some very precise questions with good confidence. However, the system was always there to detrust me and I was not going to spend hours to go through their hoops for an answer that takes me 10 min to redact. So instead I’ll post it on Reddit or a gist hopping people will be able to discover it.

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Off-putting it is. Still an important tool for finding actual answers I need for my work.

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      • oce@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Useful for me too. But I wish it was more opened for people who would just want to answer a couple of times a year, community can sort it out.

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