• haruki
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      611 months ago

      DUPLICATED, CLOSED, etc.

      Joke aside, for an open question I’d prefer posting on Reddit/Lemmy/forums to have an open answer.

      SO is too strict on its policy.

      • @lowleveldata
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        111 months ago

        for an open question

        That’s clearly not the type of “programming question” mentioned in OP tho

      • @lowleveldata
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        111 months ago

        There there. I’m not quite god himself yet although I have over 1000 points on stack overflow.

    • oce 🐆
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      111 months ago

      The validation system is extremely off-putting. I have been working on some specialized tools for years so I could have answered some very precise questions with good confidence. However, the system was always there to detrust me and I was not going to spend hours to go through their hoops for an answer that takes me 10 min to redact. So instead I’ll post it on Reddit or a gist hopping people will be able to discover it.

      • @lowleveldata
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        111 months ago

        Off-putting it is. Still an important tool for finding actual answers I need for my work.

        • oce 🐆
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          111 months ago

          Useful for me too. But I wish it was more opened for people who would just want to answer a couple of times a year, community can sort it out.