This is well said. I hope they'll stop giving correct answers in a patronising way and stop the extremely annoying practice of saying you could have found it with a search when the top search result points to a thread that says you could have found it with a search. Just give the appropriate link and be done with it.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/
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ReplyDelete"Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups"
ReplyDeleteAFAIK when you ask a question you don't have to state your gender, ethnicity, nationality etc so I don't even know how that is even possible!
Language barrier, there is.
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