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Cool! You have "discovered what Stackoverflow users were doing," and where Stackoverflow stomped it out like a plague, you have made an offering for it. Good jo

Cool! You have "discovered what Stackoverflow users were doing," and where Stackoverflow stomped it out like a plague, you have made an offering for it. Good job! I'm still amazed at Stackoverflow's failure to follow their own stated philosophy ("discover what your users are doing and enable it") in this particular area.

pasbesoin 14y ago
One of the most frustrating parts of some early experiences I had with some programming classes, was a lack of "meta". So, we're learning some specific constructs... but what is the fucking context! This is one reason such topics come up, whether on StackLatest or wherever. The new "team" members want to know where the fuck to start and what it all means. I'm put in mind of Organic Chemistry I. A great class for "weeding out" before majors are declared. At least as I experienced it, a boatload of often "arbitrary" memorization... A real slog, when you couldn't see the forest for the trees. Mind you, some significant percentage of "What's best?" posts are indeed people just too clueless or lazy to tackle any element of the question themselves. But... that's what voting and moderation are for. StackOverflow seemed to be dealing with this pretty well. I don't see what the need for the change (in attitude, if not stated policy) was.
dinkumthinkum 14y ago
Pretty much for any question you find via Google that you are really interested in, you will find an SO question that fits the bill and has some big long jibber jabber filled message about being closed for such and such reason. The strange thing to me was that when Jeff left was like when it went full tilt. It's like Mao died and the rest of the party big wigs realized they weren't being the best communists they could be and just started going overboard to stomp any possible conflict with Maoist ideology.

pasbesoin 14y ago

One of the most frustrating parts of some early experiences I had with some programming classes, was a lack of "meta". So, we're learning some specific constructs... but what is the fucking context! This is one reason such topics come up, whether on StackLatest or wherever. The new "team" members want to know where the fuck to start and what it all means. I'm put in mind of Organic Chemistry I. A great class for "weeding out" before majors are declared. At least as I experienced it, a boatload of often "arbitrary" memorization... A real slog, when you couldn't see the forest for the trees. Mind you, some significant percentage of "What's best?" posts are indeed people just too clueless or lazy to tackle any element of the question themselves. But... that's what voting and moderation are for. StackOverflow seemed to be dealing with this pretty well. I don't see what the need for the change (in attitude, if not stated policy) was.

dinkumthinkum 14y ago

Pretty much for any question you find via Google that you are really interested in, you will find an SO question that fits the bill and has some big long jibber jabber filled message about being closed for such and such reason. The strange thing to me was that when Jeff left was like when it went full tilt. It's like Mao died and the rest of the party big wigs realized they weren't being the best communists they could be and just started going overboard to stomp any possible conflict with Maoist ideology.