Probably not tbh.Patatitta wrote:
first of all, are you at a skill level where you can be the person answering questions?
Stack overflow is notorious for marking questions as duplicates when they're not or linking to a thread where the question wasn't actually answered, unhelpful answers, and actual answers being downvoted to oblivion or hidden in comments.Patatitta wrote:
second, if you post a thread, and it gets removed because it's a duplicate, isn't that good?, that just means someone asked that question already and like you have a solution right there, while if it was unique you may have had to wait like a day
stack overflow is a learning resource, not a social meadia, I don't get the "I don't think I will be using it daily" either, like, what did you expect?
Stack Overflow is notorious for having extremely bad moderation, done by people who are oftentimes extremely elitist and unkind to beginner programmers.Patatitta wrote:
second, if you post a thread, and it gets removed because it's a duplicate, isn't that good?, that just means someone asked that question already and like you have a solution right there, while if it was unique you may have had to wait like a day
Stack Overflow isn't a learning resource. It is an Q&A website for programming questions specifically.Patatitta wrote:
stack overflow is a learning resource, not a social meadia, I don't get the "I don't think I will be using it daily" either, like, what did you expect?
what's the difference between a learning resource and a website to ask stuff you don't really understand in order to learn how to not do that mistakeWinnyace wrote:
Stack Overflow is notorious for having extremely bad moderation, done by people who are oftentimes extremely elitist and unkind to beginner programmers.Patatitta wrote:
second, if you post a thread, and it gets removed because it's a duplicate, isn't that good?, that just means someone asked that question already and like you have a solution right there, while if it was unique you may have had to wait like a dayStack Overflow isn't a learning resource. It is an Q&A website for programming questions specifically.Patatitta wrote:
stack overflow is a learning resource, not a social meadia, I don't get the "I don't think I will be using it daily" either, like, what did you expect?
yeah but I mean, my point is that it's not a social media, it's not somewhere you should log in daily, not somewhere you go for fun, you either go for it due to work or because you're studying and want a resolution to a problemYmir wrote:
You can learn from a Q&A website, but its not necessarily for learning. You can't grasp big concepts with just a questions and answers website.
understandable, I was just trying to criticize the original post, theYmir wrote:
Actually you're right about that, I agree with you there. I was just helping Winnyace nitpick a little because why not.
like, what did they expect?, to make linux threads on there like here on ot?BluePyTheWDeer_ wrote:
Not using daily.
Expect the website needs people that go on daily to answer questions and upvote already existing recent answers. It is more of a social media platform designed around asking questions and giving answers, rather than a learning resource. It's a programming knowledge exchange platform. It is structured much more chaotically and if it wasn't for a search engine to go through it, it wouldn't have been a learning resource at all.Patatitta wrote:
yeah but I mean, my point is that it's not a social media, it's not somewhere you should log in daily, not somewhere you go for fun, you either go for it due to work or because you're studying and want a resolution to a problemYmir wrote:
You can learn from a Q&A website, but its not necessarily for learning. You can't grasp big concepts with just a questions and answers website.
Agreed, you don't really go on stack overflow, google sends you to it sometimes.Winnyace wrote:
Expect the website needs people that go on daily to answer questions and upvote already existing recent answers. It is more of a social media platform designed around asking questions and giving answers, rather than a learning resource. It's a programming knowledge exchange platform. It is structured much more chaotically and if it wasn't for a search engine to go through it, it wouldn't have been a learning resource at all.Patatitta wrote:
yeah but I mean, my point is that it's not a social media, it's not somewhere you should log in daily, not somewhere you go for fun, you either go for it due to work or because you're studying and want a resolution to a problemYmir wrote:
You can learn from a Q&A website, but its not necessarily for learning. You can't grasp big concepts with just a questions and answers website.
yeah but if you're not in the position to answer questions you cant do that. Also, idk if your comparasion is that correct, I feel it's closer to something like wikipedia, yes, you need volunteers and people upvoting/downvoting changes, but you're not expected to do thatWinnyace wrote:
Expect the website needs people that go on daily to answer questions and upvote already existing recent answers. It is more of a social media platform designed around asking questions and giving answers, rather than a learning resource. It's a programming knowledge exchange platform. It is structured much more chaotically and if it wasn't for a search engine to go through it, it wouldn't have been a learning resource at all.Patatitta wrote:
yeah but I mean, my point is that it's not a social media, it's not somewhere you should log in daily, not somewhere you go for fun, you either go for it due to work or because you're studying and want a resolution to a problemYmir wrote:
You can learn from a Q&A website, but its not necessarily for learning. You can't grasp big concepts with just a questions and answers website.
Back when I was interested in attempting to code, I'd often run into this issue.npc_BeaniCraft wrote:
I sometimes find it useful, but only sometimes.
Most of the time when I'm having a issue there is no answer for it and I have to suck it up.
You really like playing the Devil's Advocate. Fuck off with this shit.Patatitta wrote:
yeah but if you're not in the position to answer questions you cant do that. Also, idk if your comparasion is that correct, I feel it's closer to something like wikipedia, yes, you need volunteers and people upvoting/downvoting changes, but you're not expected to do thatWinnyace wrote:
Expect the website needs people that go on daily to answer questions and upvote already existing recent answers. It is more of a social media platform designed around asking questions and giving answers, rather than a learning resource. It's a programming knowledge exchange platform. It is structured much more chaotically and if it wasn't for a search engine to go through it, it wouldn't have been a learning resource at all.Patatitta wrote:
yeah but I mean, my point is that it's not a social media, it's not somewhere you should log in daily, not somewhere you go for fun, you either go for it due to work or because you're studying and want a resolution to a problemYmir wrote:
You can learn from a Q&A website, but its not necessarily for learning. You can't grasp big concepts with just a questions and answers website.
Just like my balls, crazy.Polyspora wrote:
this thread is itchy!
I would honestly just use Google. Stack Overflow is just not very good as a platform at all.BluePyTheWDeer_ wrote:
By daily I mean using it every time I have a problem or I feel like trying to answer.
take a bath you french fuckKarmine wrote:
Just like my balls, crazy.Polyspora wrote:
this thread is itchy!
I can agree to that, always search in google first as you're going to find the most results that wayWinnyace wrote:
I would honestly just use Google. Stack Overflow is just not very good as a platform at all.BluePyTheWDeer_ wrote:
By daily I mean using it every time I have a problem or I feel like trying to answer.
Or before using google reading the docs, it's usually where you'll find the best answers and actually learn something but googling a question will almost never send you there.Winnyace wrote:
I would honestly just use Google. Stack Overflow is just not very good as a platform at all.BluePyTheWDeer_ wrote:
By daily I mean using it every time I have a problem or I feel like trying to answer.
