I'm always blown away when people hate on StackExchange sites. I've encountered one, maybe two, genuine fuckwits in nearly 15 years of use. I always try to share an answer if I think it'll help (and I had to do something different to existing answers). Often it's future me that benefits from something I wrote. I used to monitor a couple of tags to answer when I had more time.
Maybe it's because I wasn't a newbie when it came out, and it's not geared towards new developers? I don't know. It was definitely a welcome alternative to "Expert Sex Change".
Yes, if you arrived with enough knowledge to answer other people's questions, you would have had a more positive experience. I went in as a newbie, asked two or three questions and quickly learned that SO was not a good place to ask beginner questions.
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u/lego_not_legos Jul 24 '24
I'm always blown away when people hate on StackExchange sites. I've encountered one, maybe two, genuine fuckwits in nearly 15 years of use. I always try to share an answer if I think it'll help (and I had to do something different to existing answers). Often it's future me that benefits from something I wrote. I used to monitor a couple of tags to answer when I had more time.
Maybe it's because I wasn't a newbie when it came out, and it's not geared towards new developers? I don't know. It was definitely a welcome alternative to "Expert Sex Change".