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@DavidMurdoch you really gave the -1? I'm no fan of CoffeeScript either, but everyone should choose the tool [s]he is most productive with. – Boldewyn Jul 9
by eksith 13y ago
@DavidMurdoch you really gave the -1? I'm no fan of CoffeeScript either, but everyone should choose
the tool [s]he is most productive with. – Boldewyn Jul 9 at 5:49
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@Boldewyn, I did. My justifications for it were that a) The question is tagged JavaScript, and b) a down
vote on a question that was on its way to 100+ up votes in less than a day isn't going to put a dent in anyone's
day. I even thought about flagging it as off-topic, but figured that was going a little bit too far. :-)
– David Murdoch Jul 9 at 13:49
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The question was tagged Javascript, but the question is, "How does Trello do this". Seriously, you think
it's appropriate to penalize the answerer for the fact that Trello didn't actually do it directly in Javascript?
– Elchonon Edelson Jul 9 at 15:34
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@DavidMurdoch Would you have preferred the compiled JavaScript?! – Mario Jul 9 at 17:35
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@ElchononEdelson, yes, I realized this (the question is also tagged Trello). While its appropriateness
is debatable, the answerer is the developer that wrote the code in CoffeeScript in the first place - and *that*
may very well warrant a down vote in-and-of itself. (I'm kidding, mostly). – David Murdoch Jul 9 at 21:11
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@Mario, yes. Although, I did compile it to JavaScript myself; it was equally hideous. – David Murdoch Jul 9 at
21:12
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I don't think the appropriateness is debatable. I think the appropriateness is thoroughly and completely
absent. – Elchonon Edelson Jul 9 at 21:22
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Hm, well then maybe it is just my visceral loathing for CoffeeScript that made me do it. – David Murdoch Jul 9
at 21:52
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So, in conclusion: haters gonna hate? – BoltClock♦ Jul 11 at 3:29
... Welcome to Stack Overflow.
- BadassFractal 13y agoIt'd be even more Stack Overflow if the question got immediately closed for not fitting the format of the site.
- pavs 13y agoSeriously I absolutely hate asking questions on SO and some of their more active sub-sites. I feel like I am back to the 90s forum with admins abusing their power for the most mundane reasons, the only difference is that they are not 12 year olds anymore.
- BadassFractal 13y agoI hear you. FreeNode IRC has been pretty good to me, although occasionally you run into the angry God-complexed sysadmin who ruins your day, and reminds you why people sometimes really hate interacting with IT personnel.
- manojlds 13y agoDid you even read the comments? And there is even a mod there in the comments saying "haters gonna hate" in support of the answer. Do you have this comment saved in your system and paste it anywhere you want to complain about SO?
- chmullig 13y agoIt's so disappointing how every question worth reading gets flagged, downvoted, and closed for the most random, pedantic bullshit reasons.
- eieio 13y agoTo be fair this answer currently has 591 upvotes and 1 downvote, and the question has 0 close votes. It's not exactly in danger of disappearing because of the obnoxious pedantry of one user.
- recursive 13y agoSo you don't think this question is worth reading?
- jerrya 13y agoI assume SO analyzes their logs to determine how many google searches take people to close, versus open questions. I wonder what the results are. It might be fun to create a Chrome extension that created such a tally.
- graue 13y agoSeems to me it reflects quite well on Stack Overflow that every other commenter is disagreeing with that one obnoxious user.
- epidemian 13y agoWhat's up with all the unrelated hate towards SO in the other comments? Yeah, i don't like when interesting questions get closed for being off-topic either; but it's not what happened in this case. It's just a SO user who gets mad when someone responds in CoffeeScript a question with a JavaScript tag (or when a question tagged as JS is really a CS question). I'm pretty sure i recall him doing something similar (and using the same kind of "because it's ugly!" arguments) in at least another SO question.
- cruise02 13y agoI'm sure this sort of thing never happens anywhere else on the Internet.
- ceol 13y agoCertainly not on Hacker News, where people always vote based on how something relates to the discussion and not their own personal biases.