On Feb 5, 2016, at 7:00 PM, Alexis King <lexi.lam...@gmail.com> wrote: > But everyone already knows all that. I only bring it up because I > monitor the [racket] tag on Stack Overflow[1] relatively closely, and a > whole lot of questions come up due to how people misunderstand the quote > form.
Though it has also been said that "95% of all questions [on SO] are utter, utter garbage". [1] In this case, the proof is that the Racket Guide already has a thorough explainer on this topic [2]. Shouldn't this epidemic be cured by RTFM + a link to the docs? I know that SO has a policy against RTFM-style one-link answers. They cloak it in nonsense about "the link might go away" or "it's rude" or "it doesn't build the SO community." But SO isn't a naturally formed community. It's a business. And that business depends, largely, on moving knowledge into SO's walled garden so they can sell ads. In truth, it's not in SO's interest for visitors to know that better resources exist elsewhere. For instance, Racket's phenomenal documentation. I'm not looking to pry SO from anyone's fingers, of course. But when I consider whether I should put the next X minutes of my life into improving the value of SO for its owners, or improving Racket & its docs, well ... it's never been a tough choice. [1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/271684/im-getting-really-really-tired-of-filtering-through-the-garbage-any-tips [2] http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Pairs__Lists__and_Racket_Syntax.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
