I just posted my opinion as a response to one question, but inflamed an interesting discussion. So now I am excited to know, what everyone thinks about it!
In my opinion, Hashnode is a place for discussion. We ask questions about tech and algorithms, about methods and social aspects. I think, that is what makes Hashnode very unique. After all, we already have big platforms for (simple) programming problems which usually have a quite direct solution.
Since this is my understanding, I would like to keep Hashnode "clean" from these kind of questions. Buuuut, what is your take on that? I am but one person, so it is not my place to decide things for everyone :)
I tend to agree. But "simple" questions do have there place too.
I just think there may be room somewhere/somehow in the hashnode community for this as well. Which would technically be re-inventing the wheel. But it's because of the community I'd be interested to see how it works.
At the same time, in doing such a thing could upset the balance of the community and result in hashnode no longer, well, being hashnode.
Thanks for the invite @maruru .
I agree with you - Hashnode doesn't want to be another Q&A website. If you read our tagline, you will notice that we call ourselves a conversational community for software developers. This means we expect subjective and opinion based questions.
But sometimes as a member of a developers' community, users have the urge to ask specific errors/bugs. And sometimes there is a very thin line between specific error based questions and questions that demand an explanation. We completely understand this, but as of now Hashnode is solely dedicated to opinion based questions and conversations.
The reason we don't want to have error/bug based questions is that :
However, this doesn't mean we'll never cater to such specific questions. In future, we may attempt to handle error/bug solving in a better way and at that point we can have a dedicated space for it. It's just that there is no need for it right now.
Hope this helps :)
Actually yes, this is the beauty and simplicity of this forum. Hashnode don't talk about coding, rather the technologies, libraries, concepts, practices, guides and useful material. Also the cross discussion helps many great thoughts reveal and this is how the community will grow. You find a useful article on the web? just don't keep it to yourself, share, so fellow programmers here read and provide their opinions about it and the best part is when opinions does not match, a discussion happens which always lead to better for all, which sometimes clarify our own understanding about a topic which we were assuming something else, and trails of that topic lead to new topics which we might not know or new to us. There are other good forums which are dedicated for coding problems and solutions, there you can post your code and effort, and then ask for the solution. @maruru thumbs up for this post!!
PS: keep this forum clean from all that. Peace!
Sandeep Panda
co-founder, Hashnode
In a community, where skills and expertises range, there always will be people asking different questions, based on their needs.
Hashnode is extremely friendly and welcoming community. The first thing a newcomer see is how everyone who asked a question, gets the proper attention and in-deep answer/solution to his problem. Although the main purpose of this platform is to provoke its users to communicate and discuss opinion and experience based questions, we just can't have only this kind of questions. We can't forbid them too - this will be truly ignorant. As a user of devmag/Hashnode for over a year and a half, there always has been a balanced proportion of bug/error questions and opinion based questions. Hashnode's team is doing an exceptional job of keeping this balance.
Also, a "simple" question for one, can be a show-stopper for another. A user may be looking for an explanatory answer to his specific problem and not a short "use X" type of answer. Different users like to answer different questions and contribute differently. I'm sure there are developers here that would gladly answer bug/error oriented questions.
That being said, I have to agree that if the number of these questions start to rise, we may have a problem. But totally rejecting them seems too harsh. The key word here is balance. Everybody should feel welcomed, no matter the questions one have.
As @sandeep proposed, a better way of handling these questions is the logical and more rational solution to the "problem".