Title: I&#x27;m finding forums like Stack Overflow to be almost unusable due to the sheer number of useless pedantic criticism that people post instead of actually answering questions.<p>This usually falls into one of the following:<p>1. Nitpickers who interpreted something in your question as incorrect.  They will focus on this minor point that they think you said.<p>2. Dogmatists who consider what you are asking about as violating some sacred creed, like model-view-controller or following a pattern.  They believe that you&#x27;ve violated that, and they are going to focus on that.  Nevermind that you&#x27;re asking about performance problems with some function, they are going to criticize you for using that function.<p>3. Evangelists who think you should be using newer technology Y instead of technology X. You asked a question about configuring something in X, and instead get lots of useless responses telling you to use Y.  It doesn&#x27;t matter your reasons for using X. X is stupid, use Y.<p>I suspect that if the voting&#x2F;karma behaviour of these forums could be changed, there would be less of this.<p>But are there better forums where this sort of behaviour is discouraged?
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