Honestly still much better than asking a forum. The hostility from forum regulars always seems more intense--less masked as a "terse down to brass tacks" attitu

Honestly still much better than asking a forum. The hostility from forum regulars always seems more intense--less masked as a "terse down to brass tacks" attitude and more-so blatant laziness, misplaced frustration, etc. Also, forum posters tend to waste much more time as every other post is likely to be a joke or a tangent idea, as if it were casual dialogue in a chatroom. The same mechanisms that make SO kind of brutal have also helped revolutionize asynchronous online Q&A.