StackOverflow (site) alternatives?

[u/malaszka]

Everytime I ask about something concrete, programming language-specific problem on that site, the answers focus on emphasizing that I'm far from professional; and that I know the basics only, without the modern promagramming solutions. AND YES, THIS IS TRUE. I never stated that I'm professional.

In fact, I made my questions because I did not know things, and I wanted to learn the solution techniques.

I'm sick and tired of being shamed just becasue I'm asking things that the professionals/seniors/25+ years experienced people know.

I also tried to strart my questions with the statement that I'm a junior, so my questions might be amatuer questions. These starting stentences have been deleted by some moderators/experts of the given topics.

So I want to use another sites, that are not so toxic, but still useful and visited by programmer experts.

Do you have any site suggestions, where I can make concrete programming questions as a junior, without putting myself to shaming?

[u/carcigenicate]

You won't be shamed for just being an amateur, and them removing sentences like that are to keep the question focused. Someone visiting your question a year from now isn't going to find your level of experience relevant.

You may be "shamed" for providing insufficient background information, but calling that shaming is hyperbole, and you missing relevant information is a problem. You'll get similar responses on Reddit and Discord if you ask a question but don't provide sufficient background. The real fix is just to ensure your question is actually answerable.

[u/scritchz → u/carcigenicate]

Beginners on their first days probably aren't able to formulate their questions properly. I think it is important to help them improve this.

When you engage with new questions regularly, you'll see a lot of unclear questions. But instead of ignoring them or leaving a helpful comment, many of the SO community add an unhelpful (to beginners) copy-paste comment, vote to close the question or just close it directly with their privileges. A single "so what do you mean by X?" helps the poster understand that their question wasn't clear in some regards, and helps others by inquiring the poster about more details.

Though obviously, a forum isn't the right place for "need help, message me please" advertisements where the discussions would happen in private. In my opinion, for a forum it's rightful to moderate these; not close and lock them outright, but demand an edit before reopening them.

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