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This is maybe just my own take but they're usually not dominated by pedants, it's just that you focus on that one reply from a pedant. Choose to not focus on r
by INTPenis 4y ago
This is maybe just my own take but they're usually not dominated by pedants, it's just that you focus on that one reply from a pedant.
Choose to not focus on replies that don't contribute and you'll have a better time online.
The anonymity of the internet brings out the worst in people so after 25 years on the internet I've just honed my own internal filter to not let them upset me. I think that's the real solution because we won't change humanity, so start with yourself.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoI have to wonder how much of these opinions about SO come from one bitter interaction the HNer had there that they never forgot, like the time someone corrected their question, and now the whole site sucks and everyone there sucks and needs to be rebooted. One aspect is that as you get experience, you kinda outgrow asking questions on SO but when you do your questions are increasingly arcane anyways. So the average HNers perception of SO was mostly formed when they were at their most beginner fragile stage, most likely to ask poor questions and receive humbling responses.