Sun, 25 Feb 2018 18:33:07 -0700 "Constantine A. Murenin" <[email protected]> > On 25 February 2018 at 12:48, Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > > > Martin Schroeder wrote on Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 08:00:34PM +0100: > >> 2018-02-25 18:29 GMT+01:00 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>: > > > >>> And no, i'm not going to create an account on some > >>> random site just for such a petty thing. > > > >> Stackoverflow is "some random website". :-) > > > > You can say that again, I'm dead serious. > > > > I have literally spent years working on documentation, and i shall > > be giving my seventh presentation on that topic during an international > > BSD conference at BSDCan in Ottawa, June 8 or 9 this year, so i > > kind of know what i'm talking about. > > > > Stackoverflow is definitely not among the things you should consider > > or look at when you want to understand how stuff works, when you > > are trying to solve a problem, or when you want to help people to > > use software more efficiently. > > Unfortunately, StackOverflow is a very difficult-to-avoid site > nowadays, unless you can easily live without using Google for your > tech-related questions, either.
Hi there, I disagree completely!!! Easily and best avoided all areas. Period. We have all resources in the OpenBSD system included. End of promos. > However, I completely agree with the sentiment that the site is quite > toxic, and I have 10k+ on StackOverflow and 30k+ on the whole > StackExchange network, so I know a thing or two about it. Why should we all read the promos over and over? They're irrelevant. I just deleted more marketing material from your reply, I dislike it. [..snipped some irrelevant material..] > So, I completely agree with Ingo that noone should be promoting > StackOverflow and StackExchange et al, especially in the open-source > communities, And you still did it. Now, convince us again we really should care.. We could all be wasting our time reading ads on some random web site. [..snipped more unrequested adverts..] > > Cheers, > Constantine. > http://cm.su/ Don't tell us we should use search engines to visit third party sites instead of the actual original sources in software and documentation. I will NEVER visit promoted web sites instead of the OpenBSD website. This is working AGAINST the promoted material, it is getting nowhere. I'll quote myself again, there are two types of marketeers: ones who sell their own work, and then these who do other peoples shitty work. All the hours career advancing promotional work could have been work. Kind regards, Anton Lazarov
