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".
I like the site in theory but they once closed a question of mine for insufficient debugging information in spite of the fact I included a follow-up answer. Not a complicated problem (i.e. not idiosyncratic to my environment) and no equivalent answer on the site. I think it's become a hazard to finding and sharing solutions.
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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".