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I would add 4. stackoverflow is user hostile towards rookies/newbies. People and mods forget s that it is not easy when you are new and everything is new, you
by MasterYoda 4y ago
I would add
4. stackoverflow is user hostile towards rookies/newbies.
People and mods forget s that it is not easy when you are new and everything is new, you dont know exactly how things works, what to search for because you dont know the exact words etc etc. For someone new that wants to learn programing it could be very complicated to grasp everything. Even if it is a simple question or maybe stupid question for someone that is experiensed, an anwser could still be very useful for someone new to understand something and could dayes and weeks to finally figure it out by theself. Now people just downvote and closes questions supereasy and that could be very demotive to learn programming.
Ok if "experts" dont want to read all newbie questions, but there should be a tag or something you could click so peolple now this and dont just downvote and close so easy and so people that dont want to read those question can skip them and people that want to be more helpful and understand its a newbie question still can help before everything gets closed or whatever.
- robertlagrant 4y agoSO does say if the question asker is new to the site on the answer page. The problem is that SO is not a Q&A site in the sense of "I have this exact problem; I'm going to describe it badly and not really tell you what I want". It's much more for more generalised problems with good minimal reproducible examples and specified outcomes, so that questions can help others in future. If someone is offended when asked for those things, they won't necessarily communicate what happened objectively; they may well just say "People on SO are elitist" and be believed with no evidence. Not to say that SO is perfect, but I see so much patient helping of new people that I can't help but fight its corner a little.