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I completely agree. I just saw a C++ thread where someone has posted decent enough code and its greyed out without a response. http://news.ycombinator.com/item

• reitzensteinm 15y ago
  That is particularly egregious. From the author's perspective the conversation is basically this: "I'm with you alex, I tend to only use classes when I've got to maintain state, I just use a function otherwise. Here's how I'd likely code this ... <long code example>" "You're not welcome here." It takes seconds to say he should have used pastebin, or to point out mistakes or bad practices, or whatever (I'm not sure why he was downvoted, exactly). Way less time than it took the guy to write the post in the first place.
• SamReidHughes 15y ago
  I would have downvoted it. He posted a big honking main function and other irrelevant parts of code.
  • reitzensteinm 15y ago
    But how much effort is it to reply and say "Please use pastebin for large code segments"? Isn't that a much nicer and more effective way to make sure he doesn't do it again?