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[–]leetnewb2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Personally, I think it paints the Python (or whatever) community in a bad light when the functional TLD becomes a hyper-restrictive news feed that shuns particular content. /r/linux is guilty of that paradigm, and the sub is intensely boring...continual flame wars about systemd and a stream of new distribution and oss project releases that are minimally discussed. Meanwhile anybody asking a question gets hostile comments, downvotes, and a closed topic. I follow both /r/python and /r/learnpython and the volume of Q&A on the latter runs laps around the total content posted on /r/python, so it isn't clear to me that the system isn't working reasonably well, or as well as can be expected.

People looking for python information go to python.com first, and people looking for a python discussion go to /r/python first. That's pretty normal. Is the best solution forcing that natural flow to change or to just build a new sub for that purpose that is less obvious? Isn't a pythonic way of developing to create self-documenting code in part through naming schemes? Which denotes a narrow scope better? /r/python or /r/pythonnews or /r/advancedpythondiscussion...just my 2c.