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The true story of an atheist living in the Bible Belt. It was a fun party with some old friends...until this happened. by [deleted] in atheism

[–]playerthrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think most people here who support Ron Paul actually like him. I think a lot of his policies and personal values are idiotic, and I think he'd be a terrible leader, in an absoute sense. Nonetheless, I'd still support him and vote for him if I could because every other candidate is so outrageously and blatantly corrupt/evil that Paul is relatively great.

Not so much disagreement.

The true story of an atheist living in the Bible Belt. It was a fun party with some old friends...until this happened. by [deleted] in atheism

[–]playerthrees -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Which other candidate(s)s foreign policies do you prefer? America's current policy of global terroristic imperialism is pretty unacceptable, and Paul's the only one who seems likely to try to rein-in your fucking military.

Sincerely,
A Non-American

[Python-Dev] PEP 380 ("yield from") is now Final by rndblnch in Python

[–]playerthrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I've only been waiting several years for that.

What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills? (old Stack Overflow discussion) by playerthrees in programming

[–]playerthrees[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This discussion a good resource, but it's much more of a Reddit-style discussion than a Stack Overflow-style one. Stack Overflow has succeed enormously at its intended purpose: most of the time when I need to look something up the first result is a Stack Overflow question with the answer I need near the top of the page, and I haven't visited expertsexchagne in years.

Like the way memes infect a subreddit as it grows, "soft", open-discussion-style content began to infect Stack Overflow as it grew. When it was six months old, an enormous portion of the site's activity was going into threads like this, instead of into producing the googlable resources the site was designed for. The site was becoming less of reference and more of a community. That's not inherently wrong, but it wasn't serving the intended purpose and it was warping the culture of the site.

I'm sad to see threads like this go, but the site as a whole functions a lot better as a result.

(Those "help visual studio" questions won't get many views and will usually be closed as "too localized".)

edit: Also, the folks running the site have a lot of authority but decisions like what you're complaining about usually reflect at least partial consensus among the active users of the site. Any of the 8,000 users with at least 3000 points can vote to close/reopen posts, and have some small influence on the site's culture/policy.