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| Jul 21, 2019 at 18:29 | comment | added | jpmc26 | @KonradRudolph SO is a poor format to help someone find that basic grasp of an issue. If you don't have the knowledge to understand basically what you're dealing with, there's very little chance a brief answer is going to be of much help. And if in this case, a brief answer would be of help, that answer was already duplicated many places. Your answer just copied the documentation and then explained how to multithread properly. We can't have a new question for every possible combination of two concepts; users have to be able to put two things together and make sense of it. | |
| Jul 21, 2019 at 18:27 | comment | added | jpmc26 | @KonradRudolph I have to learn about new libraries all the time. I have to deal with new concepts all the time. I self taught myself basic GIS. No formal education, almost no help from coworkers. All I had was my programming skills, my math education, and the Internet. When I ran into trouble, I started by looking for the terms I thought were relevant, and results from those led to getting a better grasp of how experts think about the issue, which led to more things I could research. That's how people learn: get a basic grasp and then expand on it. SO's expectation is that you have that grasp. | |
| Jul 21, 2019 at 18:18 | comment | added | jpmc26 |
@KonradRudolph Are you telling me that someone using the Random class can't consult the official documentation page for it? Or perform this Google search that includes their title terms? Heck, even SO's terrible search function immediately turns up results older than the linked question, and so does Similar on the Ask page. You are severely overestimating the difficulty here. The search terms required were in the question. All evidence suggests the author did not try.
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| Jul 21, 2019 at 11:20 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | “and information about it is not difficult to locate” — This is only true if you already know what you’re looking for. Don’t take this the wrong way but in your answer here you utterly failed to put yourself in the shoes of somebody who doesn’t know the answer yet, and is reading the documentation and maybe the tutorials. Researching this topic if you don’t know exactly what to look for is really hard, and this is something that’s systematically under-appreciated by high-rep users on Stack Overflow. Contrary to what you wrote it is patently not a lack of research. Hence my complaint here. | |
| Jul 20, 2019 at 16:59 | comment | added | jpmc26 | @ScottHannen You are entitled to your opinion, but I was responding to the question. The question here explicitly objects to downvoting questions without regard to any context created by comments: "I thought, once upon a time, that downvotes were reserved for bad questions, and deletions for disruptive content", and "But if reasonably well-asked question garners this amount of downvotes in a short time, with an explanation which the OP does not understand, then this feels like abuse." | |
| Jul 20, 2019 at 16:55 | comment | added | Scott Hannen | I don't the issue was downvoting in isolation. Comments played a factor. I can also understand the confusion over the duplicate. The OP was not trying to generate a string. I think the deleted comments were more of an issue, and they created a context. Downvotes are no more rude than upvotes are polite. But combined with the comments I can imagine why someone would perceive rudeness. | |
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| Jul 20, 2019 at 16:26 | history | answered | jpmc26 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |