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Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Can’t wait to get insulted by the AI for asking a “stupid” question and be told the answer has already been asked without a link but with a passive aggressive tone.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 months ago
mhague@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah but a lot of people don’t really know what SO is for. They think you just go there and get help and call it a day. But the entire point is to produce structured questions, discourse, and answers aimed at future readers. Super specific, no-context, or duplicate problems are not useful. If you are not trying to generate useful content, don’t go to SO.
It’s no different than people thinking Wikipedia is rude because they don’t differentiate between useful knowledge for a general audience vs unsourced ramblings about a topic.
Just look at all the people getting frustrated at being told “you should probably do it a different way.” They really don’t understand that just because they’re asking the question, it’s not all about them.
Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying it’s not the friendliest way to enthuse beginners to this way of working.
I get it’s frustrating, but when you’re asking your first question ever, it feels like paying for everyone else. xD
mhague@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The idea of SO is a little awkward too I think. With something like Wikipedia we’re presumably in an academic mindset. Carefully gathering information, sources, structuring it all. And even then people can get turned off by the ‘bureaucracy’ or nitpicking or whatever.
When people show up at SO they’re probably more in a “I can’t figure this damn thing out!” mode. We’re struggling with a problem, keeping a bunch of junk in our head, patience being tested, but we’re still expected to have a bit of academic rigor in our question and discourse.
balder1991@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t think it’s awkward, it’s kinda necessary.
The people who are answering questions there are doing for the ideal to have a knowledge repository. No one is helping you because they think you and your specific problem are so important to demand their time.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just look at all the people getting frustrated at being told “you should probably do it a different way.” They really don’t understand that just because they’re asking the question, it’s not all about them.
I don’t agree. I remember having a problem (something with PDF and JS if I remember correctly) and I had some restrictions (no I could not do anything about those restrictions). Someone on SO had asked my question with somewhat the same restrictions, which boiled downed to no being able to utilize the most common solution. The first answer on SO was to use the solution that specifically could not be used.
I can see your point and I actually somewhat agree but when the answers are “do X” to the question “how do I do this when I cannot do X?”, the audience should be the minority going there because they have a niece problem, not the majority that are lead there by search engines. And all the “do X” answers should be removed, or moved somewhere they are relevant.
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Or being to to google the problem with the only result being the question you just asked.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
We will fondly look back on the days of finding highly specific dead forum threads that are a decade or more old about the issue we were having.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 4 months ago
xkcd.com/979/
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
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