Hey there. I'm a developer working on some pretty niche stuff. Usually, the questions I have aren't entirely code-related, but they don't fall on any other Stack Exchange site's purview. So I post a question and, instead of getting answers from people who are also coders and have also worked with the same stuff, I get a bunch of people going all "Hey, this question doesn't belong in SO/networking/whatever". This got old fast so I stopped contributing my own answers to the sites. Can you work on making the c
Usually, the questions I have aren't entirely code-related, but they don't fall on any other Stack Exchange site's purview. So I post a question
If it's not code-related, don't post it to Stack Overflow. The site owners have been very clear about what type of content they want on their site, and questions like that are not it. The response to "we don't want that type of content on our site" is not "I'll post it anyway then complain when it gets removed". That's what spammers do. Don't post stuff where it's not wanted just because it benefits you. It's selfish and spammy. You don't have the right to abuse other people's websites for your own gain. If you want a website where you can post non-code-related questions, there are plenty of them out there. Stack Overflow is not one of them. You're posting the equivalent of -1, Flamebait there.
They're not entirely code related, and I'm not sure what that means
Hint: If you consistently get a bunch of people telling you that your questions don't belong on Stack Overflow, then they don't belong on Stack Overflow. There's tremendous amounts of people who have no problem posting questions that are on-topic. If you keep getting told that yours are off-topic, then the problem is with you.
Finally, he did not respond to being told "we don't want that type of content on our site" by posting. He le
This is "The Soup Nazi" approach to helping people with their questions. It is absolutely infuriating. I want to love Stack Overflow. Really, I do. I use it often. But I never, ever post there, because I am not thick-skinned enough to take the harassment from the junior dungeon-masters about the appropriateness of my question -or- answer.
This is "The Soup Nazi" approach to helping people with their questions.
It's not. This is the equivalent of somebody going to a soup stand and asking for ice-cream, then complaining when the soup stand won't serve ice-cream. That's not what the soup stand is for and just because you really want ice-cream, it doesn't mean it's their responsibility to serve it to you, and it doesn't make them nazis for refusing. Where does this misguided notion that Stack Overflow shouldn't be allowed to define bounda
Felson's Law:
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from
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Hey there. I'm a developer working on some pretty niche stuff. Usually, the questions I have aren't entirely code-related, but they don't fall on any other Stack Exchange site's purview. So I post a question and, instead of getting answers from people who are also coders and have also worked with the same stuff, I get a bunch of people going all "Hey, this question doesn't belong in SO/networking/whatever". This got old fast so I stopped contributing my own answers to the sites. Can you work on making the c
Re:"Not in THIS Stack Exchange site!" (Score:3)
If it's not code-related, don't post it to Stack Overflow. The site owners have been very clear about what type of content they want on their site, and questions like that are not it. The response to "we don't want that type of content on our site" is not "I'll post it anyway then complain when it gets removed". That's what spammers do. Don't post stuff where it's not wanted just because it benefits you. It's selfish and spammy. You don't have the right to abuse other people's websites for your own gain. If you want a website where you can post non-code-related questions, there are plenty of them out there. Stack Overflow is not one of them. You're posting the equivalent of -1, Flamebait there.
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Hint: If you consistently get a bunch of people telling you that your questions don't belong on Stack Overflow, then they don't belong on Stack Overflow. There's tremendous amounts of people who have no problem posting questions that are on-topic. If you keep getting told that yours are off-topic, then the problem is with you.
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It's not. This is the equivalent of somebody going to a soup stand and asking for ice-cream, then complaining when the soup stand won't serve ice-cream. That's not what the soup stand is for and just because you really want ice-cream, it doesn't mean it's their responsibility to serve it to you, and it doesn't make them nazis for refusing. Where does this misguided notion that Stack Overflow shouldn't be allowed to define bounda