Actually, I didn't go to people and ask for help. Instead, I was sitting in front of a computer for half a year, wondering why my source files I typed off some

Actually, I didn't go to people and ask for help. Instead, I was sitting in front of a computer for half a year, wondering why my source files I typed off some programming magazine would not run. I settled on batch programming for a while, because those .bat files DID run! Well, I figured it out after a while, but there never was a live human in the loop. Obviously this guys response is not nice, but I CAN understand wanting to restrict the quality of contributors I get. Trying out things is great, but do it on your time, not mine. Luckily, in real life for most projects, the number of contributors is so small that quality moderation is not a problem. I definitely don't like replacing proper technical design and documentation by social channels. Recently I tried to use a promising framework with very little documentation of its concepts, and their answer was to seek help in their Discord channels. I quickly ran into weird problems and bugs with the framework; I wasn't surprised.