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For what it's worth, I regularly browse the IRC logs to see if anything interesting has come up, and the only time I've ever seen any amount of conflict was whe

For what it's worth, I regularly browse the IRC logs to see if anything interesting has come up, and the only time I've ever seen any amount of conflict was when you were involved - and not the incident you're describing. They seem generally pretty helpful to newbies, from my own selfish perspective to a fault, since I have to skip past the dozens of "how do I add to arrays" with clojurebot responses. It might be in the way you're asking.

stcredzero 13y ago
They seem generally pretty helpful to newbies, from my own selfish perspective to a fault, since I have to skip past the dozens of "how do I add to arrays" with clojurebot responses. Lots of them seem to be stuck in "quick pattern match" mode, so in the other occasions they were "pattern matching" on my asking about a much simpler scenario than I was actually asking about -- then taking my trying to inform them their assumptions were wrong to conclude something like "he doesn't understand threads." It might be in the way you're asking. I say as much in my comment above -- I don't know enough about how to ask the questions in the most recognizable way. However, there seems to be an eagerness to throw everyone who doesn't otherwise match in the "total newb" bin, and once that happens, an inability to parse facts presented that should indicate that their initial mental models were wrong. ("You can't do that with thousands of threads."/"its dozens of threads" -- (EDIT: and actually, it can be as few threads as one wants.)) I posit this: There are other people like me who have asked non-typical questions, were treated in this way, then just turned their backs on Clojure. I just happen to have a very strong allergy to counterfactuals and make noise in this situation.