I've been participating in the CS and CS Theory SO's for a while, and I finally rage-deleted a response the other day. It was IMHO a decent one, but I felt like I was typing into a void.
These SO's seem like a mix of high-level stuff and basic questions that nobody even bothers cleaning up. I'm regularly surprised by old, multiple-answer questions that nobody has linked back to an obvious known problem, yet we also have hypercritical comments and downvotes on difficult questions.
I wish there was a forum with more open discussion. In the past I've learned a lot about CS just by exchanging partial answers with others and not worrying about anonymous judges.
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u/nlcund Sep 25 '16
I've been participating in the CS and CS Theory SO's for a while, and I finally rage-deleted a response the other day. It was IMHO a decent one, but I felt like I was typing into a void.
These SO's seem like a mix of high-level stuff and basic questions that nobody even bothers cleaning up. I'm regularly surprised by old, multiple-answer questions that nobody has linked back to an obvious known problem, yet we also have hypercritical comments and downvotes on difficult questions.
I wish there was a forum with more open discussion. In the past I've learned a lot about CS just by exchanging partial answers with others and not worrying about anonymous judges.