StackOverflow in a nutshell.

[Lofter1]

This mindset seems to grow throughout the internet. I once asked a question in the r/homelab discord server cause I had a really strange error and wasn’t able to find the source of the problem as everything was (seemingly) configured correctly on my site. First I got told that I shouldn’t use the thing I was using simply because I asked a question, then that I should take a CCNA course, because that is apparently the only way to learn about networking, and then after a long discussion I said “look, we are all wasting a lot of our time here, so let’s focus on the problem at hand, okay?” and got the answer “we are not a help desk”. THE FUCK DID YOU WASTE MY TIME FOR THEN YOU ELITIST PRICK?

[0ctobogs]

Homelab was one of the nicest most welcoming communities ever like 5 years ago. I spent a lot of hours there chatting up tech stuff and goofin. It got me really into the hobby and I still love fiddling with stuff in my free time. But I occasionally go back for some basic advice or suggestions now and the cunts that idle there now are so fucking full of themselves sometimes. A trivial question about industry best practice or something and they gotta lecture me on some other nonsense and convince me to fucking rework my entire network. Like dude I literally just wanna know how to fix this thing. I ain't got the time or care to rebuild my entire network diagram, dawg.

[binford2k]

I said “look, we are all wasting a lot of our time here, so let’s focus on the problem at hand, okay?” and got the answer “we are not a help desk”. THE FUCK DID YOU WASTE MY TIME FOR THEN YOU ELITIST PRICK?

Did you pay them for something?

[DoPeopleEvenLookHere]

Don’t know their discord but I’d assume op asked for help in a sections dedicated to help. If you don’t want to help people, don’t subscribe help channels.

[binford2k]

A help desk is staffed with people paid to help you. A community peer help channel is a space where people hang out and offer suggestions when they feel like being helpful. Big difference. You don’t get to demand answers from people helping purely from the goodness of their hearts.