I guess I’m just lucky, but I’ve gotten nothing but thoughtful support on Arch forums and Stackoverflow. If you read the article How do I ask a good question?, it works very well. It seems harsh but coming with poorly thought out questions without debugging details makes it impossible to help.
Made the mistake of asking for help on a game’s discord (the developers had wiped my save data including premium currency because they migrated to a new account system and I didn’t catch it in time)
Surprised how eager people are to shit on each other even when it’s on behalf of a company that will screw them over in a heartbeat
Game forum is the worst, every game forum I’ve visited gives me a glimpse of the people who end up in hell
The type of people you encounter on game forums are not representative of the games because who tf spend their entire day waiting for one person to post about an issue just to shit on them
Googling the question. top links is always, always the question being answered by : google it.
I prefer the tau version
Which?
It would be more appropriate if the Imperium replied with the Navy Seal Copypasta.
Oh man you got a lot of TILing to do. Lots of lore
Don’t ask a question. Make the title “Hey look at this cool way to do X” and do it wrong, and hope someone corrects you.
“The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#:~:text=Cunningham is credited with the,than to answer a question.
My favorite part is a little after where he says he never said that
Gotta appreciate the irony
That is called the Streisand effect.
That’s not-
Wait a minute. Ha, you almost had me, you sly dog.
Just read the duplicate
that is not the same thing at all
skill issue
Some of the “duplicate” questions that I have seen on Stack Overflow are phrased entirely different than the supposedly “original” one. It’s like they expect me to brute-force their entire fucking search index before publishing a new question. I don’t have that much patience or time.
Unless they’re being rude about it you shouldn’t take that personally, they’re doing exactly that job for you and it’s useful to make easier to find contents for other people
Stackoverflow gets quickly steamrolled by AI.
We’re not 100% there yet, but the writing on the wall is there. Just my opinion, of course.
I’d still chose someone else’s stack overflow question every time over AI. AI is a last resort
That said, I have never asked a question on stack overflow as it’s not exactly an inviting atmosphere
StackOverflow initially had an interesting idea of putting metrics on things, and unfortunately humanity’s penchant for “what gets measured is gamed” was amplified and devolved into a hive of HOA Karens looking for infractions of the rules.
I’ll bet that if you “relaunched” a SO-like system and removed all human-visible “points” or “scores” you could achieve a less toxic environment. The only “ranking” is implicit based on your topical subscriptions.
Then again, you could “relaunch” the “relaunch” and “AlphaGo-ify” a bunch of AI agents to compose the dialogs and threads without any human interaction at all. I guess we’re on our way already to building Culture minds.
