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>helping pajeet or compsci freshmen on the internet

why would you do this

What are the good alternatives to (((Stack Overflow)))/(((StackExchange)))?

>>967586

Reading the documentation and books

>>967575 (OP)

>stack overPOZZ

>not "pozz overflow", conjuring images of someone getting gangbanged and filled with so many poz loads that it overflows out of his butt tunnel

12k rep user here. Last time I checked (admittedly a long time ago) it was just 2k rep for the privilege to edit people's posts without approval. I'd tell you to simply amass enough rep but by that point you probably won't give a single shit to improve some retard's question's shitty formatting. I don't even post anymore and make like 500 rep/year doing nothing, lmao.

Also, don't get suckered into this "suggested edits" crap. It's like 2 rep/accepted edit. Don't participate in meta. Don't fuck around in chat. Don't farm idiotic badges. If you want to participate at all, go ask and answer questions instead. I don't do that anymore because every time I visit the site the questions are boring as fuck.

>>967575 (OP)

It looks like you made it worse. LISP formatting isn't appreciated outside of LISP communities. Poo in the loo, Pajeet.

>>967619

It's not Lisp formatting. looooooooong lines look horrible no matter the language.

>>967607

>>967609

Karma was a mistake. I wish we could go back to the days when know nothings couldn't hide behind internet posts and post counts. These people would have gotten eaten alive on the mailing lists.

>>967632

*internet points

>>967632

Mailing lists and forums (yes even this one) degenerate into social hangouts for the regulars. Every community is shit. At least my name isn't publicly associated to anything I do here.

The only way to have something remotely good is to whitelist people. Find experts in some niche and create a community with just them as members. Don't allow the public to join at all. At most, let existing members vouch for new people and ban them from doing so if they introduce retards into the community.

>>967636

And what about the women? What about the women, busta?

>>967575 (OP)

I'm no fan of what stackoverflow has become lately, but the problem you're having is with some random jerk-off who's got review privileges. I've had edits rejected, resubmitted verbatim, and accepted by a different reviewer.

>>967700

women get a pass because i want more women in tech

women should be let in anywhere based on being a woman

>>967575 (OP)

>i don't even know why I keep trying to contribute to this shit

I don't either, please stop waisting your time on these idiots.

Stack Overflow is the UNIX method of programming. USENET groups like comp.lang.c and comp.unix were the forerunner to Stack Overflow. Mainframes had documentation describing all the hardware and software so people could actually understand how the computer works and all the code that was running on it. Mainframe users and computer scientists even said "no one could understand" Lisp machines "because there were no manuals" and that's true compared to what they were using. UNIX came with "man" pages that sucked and didn't explain anything, so UNIX weenies had to ask each other instead of reading the documentation because it didn't exist.

      OK, then what does "[Trying to connect to your party's
      talk daemon]" mean?

   Look at the source code.

So what kind of operating system has standard utilities with
undocumented diagnostic messages?  Oh, I see.  If someone actually
documented Unix in its entirety, just the "Bugs, Lossage, and  Error
Messages" section would look like a set of VMS documentation.

UNTALK, without a screen refresh routine, was never this bad.

Subject: Re: Another Reason To Hate C


    This certainly seems to be a lot of the resistance to
    lisp machines.  ``But it's got *all* *those* *manuals*!''

    There is a certain irony in this for those of us who
recall the early complaints about lisp machine environments.
The most vocal complaint of the establishment computer
science community was that this system was just a hack, and
that besides no one could understand it because there were
no manuals.  Here in the future, `man' serves as the
constantly available, online, up to date information
resource we know and love.  In the words of the famous song
`Who could ask for anything more'.

>>967586

Already knowing everything, so you don't have to look shit up.

In seriousness, I don't know why anyone would contribute to the site, but it can be a good reference sometimes.

>>967575 (OP)

stack overflow is horrible, but your edit was entirely pointless and begging for sympathy here won't change that.

Classic Bryan.

>>967835

>women get a pass because i want more women in tech

>women should be let in anywhere based on being a woman

You need to leave immediately and never return.

>>967700

The less women, the better. I've watched women directly destroy groups before; gaming groups, hobby groups, you name it. The second you see a woman join, it's time to start preparing for the death of the group.