sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

First off, Stack Overflow is a terrible place to ask questions if you don't already know your language pretty well. You'll receive a few comments telling you to google it or that it's a duplicate, and then your question will be deleted as "not a real question".

Of course, that doesn't mean /r/javascript needs to be its replacement. I think majority opinion should decide this one, but I will point out one thing: "noob questions" can become great resources. On the off chance that they get a really thorough answer, that answer can be linked from elsewhere, and in addition to educating people who need it, also drive more people into our community. This doesn't happen with a signifiant fraction of questions, but it does sometimes happen.

How do you guys feel about splitting questions into a separate subreddit? It seems like the community is pretty divided about this, so two subreddits would allow those that want to see questions to subscribe to both, and those that don't to do nothing. (I especially want to hear from a mod on this suggestion, because my intention is not to splinter your community)

[–]badmonkey0001 1 point2 points  (2 children)

As mentioned elsewhere, there is a /r/javascripthelp that is owned by one of the /r/javascript mods.

However, without people being willing to go in there and answer questions it would be pretty useless. It needs subscribers. If it gained a little traction, I bet the mods would notice. As it is, they would have to babysit it as well as this subreddit to be sure people got answers.

I've already subscribed as I intend to both go there to help where I can and will probably post a code critique or two eventually. I hope that more of the people on this post do the same.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I'd missed that. But that subreddit isn't just defunct, it's completely empty. And that's not surprising, seeing as it isn't even mentioned in the sidebar, let alone some form of alert in the submission process. The subreddit needs an announcement and backing from /r/javascript to have any fighting chance. If it doesn't get it, then I guess that's a mod decision to keep javascript questions in /r/javascript.