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0 pointsspywaregorilla4y ago0 comments

While its less useful for future people with problems, I have better luck on discord communities when they're available.

As an infrequent stack overflow user, I find the platform very user hostile, especially to new users. If you write a question that's not great, it's just locked, and you're not really told what to do, often with a vague suggestion like "lack of clarity or detail" which are orthogonal concepts. Are you supposed to just leave a comment in a dead question thread and hope that someone responds? You're mostly just left for dead.

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mdaniel4y ago

> you're not really told what to do,

I know, right, every stack exchange site should really write down a comprehensive how-to-ask page, and they should have a dedicated section just for what used to be called "MCVE" but has since been renamed to "Minimal, Reproducible Example" ... err I mean one day when they write up these guidelines they will eventually rename it

Then people wouldn't have all those "it don't work, what do" questions closed and instead moderators can put in just as much effort as the asker did

In seriousness, I believe some of the miscommunication stems from the difference between "I had my question closed for not following the published site guidelines" versus an actively hostile "get bent, n00b" interaction

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0 pointsspywaregorilla4y ago0 comments

While its less useful for future people with problems, I have better luck on discord communities when they're available.

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mdaniel4y ago

> you're not really told what to do,

Then people wouldn't have all those "it don't work, what do" questions closed and instead moderators can put in just as much effort as the asker did

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