There’s a lot to chew on in that post and its linked ‘how to hack’. I think there is some disagreement in terms of how much time newbies should spend drafting a proper question, but in more formal groups much of it seems to hold true.
It also reminds me of this recent piece: Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow (https://games.greggman.com/game/done-with-stackoverflow/) in which the author describes some of the pain in answering questions (along with other tasty morsels about social media addiction)
In any case, yea, I spent way to much time answering questions on Stack Overflow. At the time I wrote this I had answered 27% of all the WebGL tagged questions on the site. Including other topics in total over 1900 answers. I also edited the tags of hundreds of wrongly tagged questions.
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As a recent example, someone was trying to glue together two libraries and was running into issues. I got their minimal repo runnable, tracked down the issue, posted a working solution, and filed a bug report on one of the libraries. The entire process took about 2.5 hours.
There’s a lot to chew on in that post and its linked ‘how to hack’. I think there is some disagreement in terms of how much time newbies should spend drafting a proper question, but in more formal groups much of it seems to hold true.
It also reminds me of this recent piece: Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow (https://games.greggman.com/game/done-with-stackoverflow/) in which the author describes some of the pain in answering questions (along with other tasty morsels about social media addiction)
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