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Two sites with two different intentions. Hacker News is for reading interesting things and learning, StackOverflow is for getting answers to problems. I don't t
by mhaymo 14y ago
Two sites with two different intentions. Hacker News is for reading interesting things and learning, StackOverflow is for getting answers to problems. I don't think SO would benefit from leaving popular non-constructive questions unlocked.
- dustinupdyke 14y agoI read the thread on SO and I learned. If their end is to help users understand and learn via a question format, then isn't this question fitting? I get what you are saying, but what if my problem is I'm having a hard time understanding vim fundamentals? Perhaps "the problem" is subjective to begin with because it is relative to each of us.
- GhotiFish 14y agoI grok your thinking. Some problems have subjective answers. They're still real problems. They still have real questions, and more than one answer can exist.
- icebraining 14y agoSO is for programming questions, though, and this isn't. There are better venues for it, like other SE sites.
- mh- 14y agowhere your question will also be locked... oh- and in the interim, it will receive attention from but 1% of the qualified posters SO has.
- icebraining 14y agowhere your question will also be locked... Not if you choose the right venue. Now that I read the question, you're right that it'd probably be blocked on any SE site because it's a poor fit for their Q&A format, but SE is not the only programming community online. oh- and in the interim, it will receive attention from but 1% of the qualified posters SO has. So? Should I start posting the results of the UEFA Champions League here just because there are many interesting posters here?