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From: Ar Rakin <rakinar2@onesoftnet.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: USENET
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 16:48:43 +0600
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On 3/2/25 8:34 AM, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
> Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> writes:
> 
>> On 28/02/2025 22:57, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>>> Sorry---I messed up the subject.  Fixed it.
>>> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Ar Rakin <rakinar2@onesoftnet.eu.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>> You might consider posting on Stack Overflow.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's no fun :/
>>>>
>>>> Might also enjoy it while you can.  With the advent of text generators,
>>>> the future of this website might be quite uncertain.
>>
>> Usenet it not a website.
> 
> LOL---I meant Stack Overflow.  I would think they're very much down by
> now in page views because I'd think it's used most by beginner
> programmers who would typically try text generators before they go to
> Stack Overflow and will usually be satisfied.  So I think Stack
> Overflow's future is quite uncertain.
> 
> And, by the way, I didn't think it would happen so fast, but since it
> started out, I thought---it can't go too far because they don't quite
> let programmers talk to one another, like we do here.  A
> question-and-answer website is poor.  It's useful, but it's poor.
> 
> Discoveries come about not by asking and answering, but by writing, so
> we need to write to learn and understand.  Of course, the writing should
> be of high-quality, which is achievable if the community enforces it.

The StackOverflow community is extremely toxic to newbies - instead of 
asking and answering questions like a healthy and friendly community. 
Refer to this YouTube video for more details on this: 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7v0yvdkIHg>.

I stopped using StackOverflow years ago.

-- 
Rakin