If you ask a question, generally, you are soliciting willingness to receive inputs. You seem to be feeling salty that you're not getting the input from others y

If you ask a question, generally, you are soliciting willingness to receive inputs. You seem to be feeling salty that you're not getting the input from others you desired, yet could not previously articulate. Half of your pedantic nitpickers (of which I suppose I may now be counted in the number of) are at least providing you a concrete example of what the answer isn't, and what may ultimately be direction/inspiration for where an answer may lie. I guess I'm just saying, be thankful you even get lackluster answers in lieu of the alternative. As far as how to divorce honests attempts to solicit input from the social mediafication of the programming space, (i.e. aggressive building of mindshare in terms of dogmatic adherence to the One True Way to Parse a Lolcat), or people arbitrarily rearchitecting your problem space (Your lolcats must be partitioned, sharded, highly available, with 9 9's uptime, with no greater than 300 ms from disk to eyes, when all you needed was a Lolcat that'd get there eventually when a friend came looking in the afternoon in less than 7kb total)... I'm not sure. It's rather annoying. The latter I find less annoying than the former, but generally speaking, just be both polite and willing to patient game of code golf til a bored grey beard has some time to kill, or you figure it out.