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[1]@alfq i guess i will disagree with some points, and purely because i still feel myself to be a beginner dev.
Yeah that site is all good with serious environment nd nasty moderators , which together contributes to a great resource base.the thing about closing the duplicates? Am totally cool it.
Strict questioning and answering rules?yeah they are good IF they have a better editor (i have a good experience with writing readme's and markdown files on github, but SO won accept if i directly copy it..maybe one of them uses some flavoured version or whatever...)
No commenting if you don't have a repo?well wait..Even today i still question the logic of this.. A comment is an informal gesture of expressing your acceptance, rejection, confusion, spamming or trolling. An answer is a formal gesture of response telling a formal solution . Not everyone has the answer to A problem. Sometimes i just find a question almost exactly like mine but the answer is somewhat confusing and .... -
@alfq yeah and sorry for spamming your post with comments 😅. Its just i love stack overflow flow and she is so mean that i sometimes lose my temper xD. Checkout this : https://devrant.com/rants/1319958/...
Stackoverflow.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Rant!!!
Recently, there has been this issue on StackOverflow not been friendly to beginners. I don't fully agree with that. SO is strict and rightly so because if not that, we will be flooded with repeated questions and low value answers. As a programmer, I believe when I go to SO, I want an answer quickly and fast because most at times, I'm programming and the problem I have is preventing me from moving forward. To be flooded by repeated and low quality questions and answers wouldn't help anyone. Also, on most beginner programming tutorials, were people are advised to check sites like SO when they have problems, most of them tell their listeners or readers to check if the question has been asked before, before going ahead to ask. Even SO assists you when typing your question with similar questions just to make sure you don't ask repeated questions. I rarely downvote but I understand those who do. Also, there is this talk about 'inclusivity' and some relating it to gender. It looks like people tend to slap gender and race on everything these days. To make this clear, I'm not a white male so that one wouldn't say the system favors me so I don't see the problem. The fact SO collects data about developers and it comes out that, most of the partakers are males doesn't mean SO is favoring males. SO doesn't show your gender when you ask a question. It doesn't even show your gender in your profile so what's the issue here? It will be better to get to the root of why there are few females in computer engineering and solve it there rather than blaming a site because of data collected. To know where this rant is coming from, just search StackOverflow on twitter and read the recent tweets.
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