Re: OT: USENET

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:
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Ar Rakin <rakinar2@onesoftnet.eu.org> writes:
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You might consider posting on Stack Overflow.

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That's no fun :/

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Might also enjoy it while you can.  With the advent of text generators,
the future of this website might be quite uncertain.

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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.
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Rakin