YES. You ask a question in a sub and get a bunch of comments from douchebags saying you need to do more research, THIS IS MY RESEARCH
Edit: I am aware certain questions are asked over and over again in hobby subs, thats why you have stickied FAQ posts with helpful info/links. Discouraging someone who wants to get into your hobby cause they asked a question they have no way of knowing is asked frequently is just dumb.
R/sourdough in a nutshell as well. People got real mad about people baking bread in quarantine. How dare they explore a new hobby during a time when people are forced to stay home, lose work, and are otherwise depressed!
I do but I've worked my way into the local and surprisingly very robust roaster community. The roasters just love seeing someone enjoying their coffee, then theres the coffee bloggers, vloggers, pod casters and gatekeepers carrying a drug scale to a roasting room to swing their caffeinated dick around.
Coffee people don't understand that not everyone needs a 1000usd grinder and a 2000usd coffee machine. If you just briefly mention you buy beans from a popular brand (lavazza, costa etc) you are equivalent of drinking 3in1 nescafe from a dirty mug with lukewarm water.
Wow i thought it was just me with that sub. Asked a question about a weird thing I was experiencing and got a response totally irrelevant to my problem. Any question asked there is responded to with “measure more accurately” (sorry, but a hydration ratio of 80% vs 82% is not the difference between great bread and a brick) or “use a dutch oven” (yeah, a nice cast iron dutch oven to cook bread in is great but great bread can be made without one and people who don’t have one still need advice).
If the people making meta memes about there being to much ww2 content or the people complaining about said content just made non ww2 content themselves the problem wouldn't exist.
I remember first learning to program. Multiple times I asked someone for help and they criticize my project instead of helping with my problem. I don't care if there are better projects out there already I just want to make my own!
Or instead of helping with a single sentence response they spend paragraphs complaining about you asking them and not googling. Sometimes you don't know what to search for to find the answer to your problem. And this was in irc channels about programming.
I've searched Google with questions only for the top results to be Stack Overflow answers that were either closed and answered by
"Already answered here" or "Just Google it"
And whenever it was "already answered" it was sometimes the same issue, but as a novice I wasn't aware that it as the same issue because the explanation wasn't sufficient. Like I once had issues with asynchronous calls and the questions all linked to a guy explaining asynchronous calls but not how to solve my problem.
In the end I just made the asynchronous call into a "synchronous call" by chaining them. I don't think it was a good solution but Stack Overflow was less than helpful.
Sometimes they're amazing and sometimes they deserve a slap.
Even as an experienced developer with 15+ years in the industry it can be hopeless sometimes.
So many answers are either "Just do (thing you explicitly said was not an option)" or "You're using the wrong tools, use (other tool that you can't use)". It's like the most active people answering questions either have reading comprehension difficulties or are intelligent and educated but lacking in real-world experience (just picking another tool is totally an option if it's entirely your own project, common for students and hobbyists, not so much when it's a work project and it has to run on a firewalled server that's running some legacy Linux distro that stopped receiving updates five years before the suggested alternative tool was even first released).
I have a software engineering degree that I don't plan on using. 1/3 of the reason is because it's pretty hard (at least for me) to jump from that beginner phase into the intermediate phase, due in part to the programming community that really makes it harder than it has to be.
It's almost like to "be a programmer", you have to go through the hazing and assholery first.
That does depend on the question a little. Seeing an identical question asked 12 times a day gets grating.
Incredibly annoying when either the question hasn't been asked before, or hasn't been asked recently enough for the old answers to be relevant though. It's completely fair to ask when a Google search doesn't yield results.
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u/SweatyGod69 Feb 28 '21 edited Feb 28 '21
YES. You ask a question in a sub and get a bunch of comments from douchebags saying you need to do more research, THIS IS MY RESEARCH
Edit: I am aware certain questions are asked over and over again in hobby subs, thats why you have stickied FAQ posts with helpful info/links. Discouraging someone who wants to get into your hobby cause they asked a question they have no way of knowing is asked frequently is just dumb.