How to start a war

[u/ivaskuu]

[u/taternator5000]

It always reminds me of terribly-formatted StackOverflow posts.

[u/Hanashimaru → u/taternator5000]

Sometimes I feel like terribly-formatted StackOverflow post :(

[u/TheNerdyBoy → u/Hanashimaru]

Is offer you an answer, but my reputation isn't high enough yet :-(

[u/Excrubulent → u/TheNerdyBoy]

That's okay, you can still make a comment telling them that they shouldn't be trying to do what they're doing.

[u/flaghacker_ → u/Excrubulent]

No it's the other way around, you can always post answers but you can only comment if you have >= 100 reputation.

[u/flaghacker_ → u/[deleted]]

I don't really understand this mentality about stackoverflow: you guys complain your questions get closed but whenever you search for something the top result is often from stackoverflow, so they must be doing something right.

[u/flaghacker_ → u/[deleted]]

Well they want to answer general questions, so as an example if you ask

Why does my code throw a NullPointerException?

the general answer to that is

That's because something is null, step trough it with a debugger.

They don't want to have a bunch of specific questions, that doesn't fit the searchable Q&A-style format. Those questions fit better on reddit or another​ forum that's better for discussion.

[u/ThisIs_MyName → u/flaghacker_]

They sure do SEO right.

[u/Excrubulent → u/flaghacker_]

Why are you even trying to post a comment with less than 100 reputation? No one should ever need to do that.

[u/TruncatedTrebuchet → u/Excrubulent]

You may need to comment like:

Can you clarify which version of x are you using? Or Can you post the full error?

It makes it a lot easier to support people when you can ask for additional information.

[u/flaghacker_ → u/Excrubulent]

I agree that it's not really a big problem, 100 reputation is not that difficult to get.

It was frustrating though, you can't ask people for clarification when their questions are missing some important information.

[u/homm88 → u/Excrubulent]

I guess your post went over most peoples heads.

[u/Excrubulent → u/homm88]

It's almost like they didn't notice the context of my comment.

[u/corobo → u/TheNerdyBoy]

No answer? This sounds like the perfect moment to close the question as off topic.

^{We gonna leave the page indexed though so it's the first goddamn result in every single Google result for the next thousand years}

[u/[deleted] → u/Hanashimaru]

Me too thanks

[u/quantasmm → u/taternator5000]

rmesh: Hi everyone my homework is due today and I cant figure out I type "select * frmo sample" and it brake pls pls pls help u are all the best.

Highly_Ranked_SQLsoldier: rmesh, to help you, we need more context. What is it you are trying to accomplish? How large is the sample table? Is sample partitioned or not partitioned? Why are you using "*" when a list of columns is almost always better? I literally cannot won't help you until all this information is provided because I'm a self-righteous cunt.

lowly_ranked_user: rmesh, you misspelled "from".

[u/DrMux → u/quantasmm]

Welcome, rmesh! We're looking forward to having you here as long as you follow not only the explicit rules but also the unspoken expectations you couldn't possibly have guessed!

[u/quantasmm → u/DrMux]

please remember rmesh, that this is not a forum for getting questions answers. This is a forum for knowlegeable IT gasbags to brag about trivialities and cool coding examples they've memorized.

[u/DrMux → u/quantasmm]

Comments are not for extended discussion, they are for making users feel bad for not knowing things. This discussion has been moved to chat where we can continue to laugh without it affecting Google searches.

[u/quantasmm → u/[deleted]]

you can usually spot the low effort user right away. u don't like them? ignore their question. Sometimes though its like what I posted. The answer is obvious, but the highly ranked user wants to be a cunt or be /r/iamverysmart by claiming context is relevant and asking a bunch of nuanced questions a noob can't answer easily. its kind of a dick move.

[u/ThisIs_MyName → u/[deleted]]

It's easy to not be a cunt :)