Reflection: Not Stack-Overflow

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A misunderstanding yesterday brought me to this small reflection.

My opinion is that this Forum is NOT a simple question-answer-forum like Stack-Overflow.

Every entry might spawn new side topics and maybe even hard cross talk to topics we love in a single thread.

If this startles you feel free to contact the authors in a direct message or in a reply.

But please keep it friendly and open. We have so many users that share and contribute and I would love to keep it that way.

To avoid cross talk please state your issue as a clearly as possible and maybe even add a title prefix like ā€˜Help:ā€™

You are free to address the developers or other users directly to channel the kind of answer you get.

User profiles and post are a good place tho check for good partners for a narrow and specific discussion.

Hope we make this a place where everybody can contribute and get the value she or he is looking for.

Sincerely
Andreas

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Iā€™m as guilty as any of the ā€œside topicsā€ or, as I call them "tangential topicsā€.

If this offends I hope people will let me know.

(Inside IBM we had the equivalent to this forum 35 years ago - and it was part of our culture to go off on, hopefully useful or interesting, side topics. Old habits die hard, and some donā€™t need to die at all.) :slight_smile:

Iā€™d also echo the ā€œbe kindā€ / ā€œbe civilā€ message. I think this place generally is that.

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I would say that this is one of the things I love here in this forum.

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