Comments by "George Albany" (@Spartan322) on "ForrestKnight" channel.

  1. These are the type of responses that piss me off when I see it on SO, I've seen multiple questions get closed because someone asked for a specific answer that to some random jackasses happened to be "inefficient" or "outdated" without regard for individual needs.
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  2. Eh, there are stupid questions, but responding as a jackass and not qualifying why its a stupid question (not in a mean way or vicious way, but in a rational caring manner) makes you an asshole. The only time you could be close to justified in such is if someone is asking a stupid question which you answer in such a way and they keep asking the same question as if nobody answered them.
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  3.  @zembo529  I think many question, even in learning capacity, can be stupid, I think the correct thing to say is no one deserves to be demeaned for saying a stupid question by itself, (attitude, receptivity, arrogance, these are proper qualified for responding more harshly, but not at the question nor toward the question, but towards the behavior) and it should be used both to teach about the subject and about how to ask a better question.
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  4. I think SO should either gatekeep the people that can answer to people with positive responses and good references, or to let anyone respond without regard for individual karma. As it stands now, the only way to get anywhere on SO fast is acting like an asshole.
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  5.  @zembo529  You can infer or outright read tone of the questioneer based on the words they use and the reference for which they refer to themselves by, even in a short question, least in cases where attitude and behavior were had, regardless those cases are exceedingly rare and are in all practicality an exception and not the rule. The point I had is that people can be dumb or foolish in a question, but the fool who knows they are a fool and humble themselves to ask about something they don't know, even if they fail at asking the right questions, or to even ask a proper question at all, should not be treated poorly off that basis, even in the case the person should've or could've looked up the answer instead, better to be respectful and give them a proper starting point both as an answer and for further questions. A dumb question can exist in many respects, correcting the ignorance or foolishness is a respectful dictation the expertise should be able to clear out for the inexperienced without harsh words.
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  6. Its a common thing to see experts (who don't perfect their craft but lay about in it, which Stack Overflow is mostly about) in a lot of places, but especially in Software Engineering, to be prideful and lazy, they think themselves superior and that everyone should think like them and anyone who doesn't isn't worth the time. This is a common problem with high end experts in a lot of fields, especially with expert fools that don't teach or deal with inexperience. Some of these folks are also angry over something specific, often cases over where they are in their lives, perhaps thinking they deserve better and they want to take it out somewhere else. (I've seen enough cases of development filled with those type of characters to say I wouldn't discount the amount of people that do that) In these cases, they not only think you should solve the problem by yourself (which is a stupid response by itself since they are already humbling themselves saying they don't understand and want help figuring a problem out) but they lambast you for not thinking like them and getting help. They are arrogant pricks with a superiority complex and a self-righteousness in the industry, it pisses me off to see this happen all the time and I hate Stack Overflow for not only putting no goddamn effort into fixing the problem but making it worse because only the folks that act that way get to the top of Stack Overflow and because they get to jack off the ego of the elites, they get upvoted at the cost of anyone who happens to "know less then them". (even if they don't know all that much because 99% of the time someone who acts that way is actually a dunce in their knowledge anyway)
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  7.  @kopikoblanca8907  It might be, but it could also be someone who is simply stupid to the subject, those who are humble to an answer should be treated well, those who are not should be called out for their behavior before or during the answer. In the case of someone who should or does know the answer, they should be berated for negligent ignorance and shutdown for being unqualified for even an answer.
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  8. Ironic that they're bullying themselves because they're such weak pricks.
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