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Re:Stack Overflow Culture by epx on Sunday March 18, 2018 @07:46AM (#16611504)
In Portuguese version of SO, most of the questions are very basic programming and smell as course homework that the student is asking SO to answer. Whoever does this kind of question is not simply naive: he is lazy and gives the profession a bad name. No point in being helpful and forthcoming.
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Re:Stack Overflow Culture by jochung on Sunday March 18, 2018 @09:44AM (#16611880)
I'm somewhat surprised the term "help vampire" didn't appear in the original post. It's not just that some people ask for homework help. It's that some people's entire repertoire of problem solving skills well into adulthood only consists of asking others.

Good questions ought to lead to better problem solving skills. Often they don't.

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