Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 00:27:20 +0000 From: boB Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: The end of stackoverflow? Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 17:27:19 -0700 Message-ID: References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 37 X-Trace: sv3-9jDL4vgJwTTcfFZ/2e9AXzKmmhgLyf3DeRsFORdOAD/sqscxN8x9p4tHEjArVhq7ffrOD6Erhsp0sip!9EAIXcKEShZD8c0UktiaPrWPncWNGA9BcdKmEEazdVYej1Eqgb2Tlha2tzxC8bPDZ4lZxJy7R6JN!xMYqOxnC X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2392 On Sat, 11 May 2024 12:39:34 -0700, Don Y wrote: >On 5/11/2024 4:45 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote: >> The most annoying is that 4 of 5 question that I want to >> ask there are destroyed by the moderators. > >For all the folks who think "moderation" is the solution... :> > >> It is largely arbitrary. >> Explain the difference between c and lisp macro's? >> IMHO dubious. Huge upvotes, apparently acceptable. >> Explain the difference between Forth and lisp macro's? >> A more sensible question because they are more related. >> Shot down, inappropiate for SO. >> My sensible m4 question (how to write a function that >> removes the first character of a string) was voted down. > >In Inferno/Limbo, you would use "len" to determine the number >of characters in the argument (to guard against degenerate >cases -- with appropriate conditional logic) and then "substr" >to peel off the characters following the "0-th" character. > > I have found that any of my contributions to a question are either removed or edited. I thought it was just me but it looks like it isn't just me. This may be for stack-exchange or in addition to. Are they owned by the same people ? The article called them "sisters" boB