Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow

Re:Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Sta... by darkerside on Sunday December 15, 2019 @05:08PM (#21799317)

SO is the way it is because it is worse than useless to have a beginner friendly Q&A site. Many questions are so basic that they can be figured out with a minimum of effort or a quick look at documentation. A site full of low effort questions, quite possibly from CS majors looking for homework help, isn't doing anybody any favors.

If you can't be bothered to answer a couple of questions in the name of getting involved in the community, the community is probably better off without your input.

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Re:Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Sta... by silvat on Sunday December 15, 2019 @07:08PM (#21799863)

Those low effort questions are often extremely popular though, which would imply that they are useful to a lot of people.

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Re:Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Sta... by why-oh-why on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:04AM (#21801285)

“Where is babby come from” would be a pretty popular question too, but it’s not the right forum.

I wish though that StackOverflow turned such questions into a chat/discussion instead of closing/deleting them. They have the tools to do that when comments start becoming too chatty.

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