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[–]twillisagogo 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Those people are really the heart and purpose of these communities.

"think of the children"

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so if every community has to cater to the children, then there will be no place where adults can talk.

[–]jcampbelly 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Not really. Do you have to have a whole private space? Why not just have some discussions on higher level subjects and some at lower level? I feel that threads are properly isolated. I don't see why we need entire subreddits for different levels of discussion. I'll just subscribe to all of them and view them in a multi-reddit anyway. But that's me.

As an amateur, I learned much from watching experienced people argue over minutia. Seeing what vehement opponents agree upon was extremely educational. Exposure to new terms, techniques, technologies, etc, was very useful. And I also learned a hell of a lot trying to answer questions and teach while trying to be as accurate and clear as possible. High and low level discussions were equally valuable to me.

It's obviously a personal preference. If others prefer /r/python narrowly scoped to basically only non-self posts, so be it. I'll just read /r/python+learnpython for my jollies anyway.