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My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF

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123 points eterm | 2 comments | 08 May 25 12:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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eterm ◴[08 May 25 12:11 UTC] No.43925356[source]▶
A post in which I try to rubber-duck a CoreWCF issue I've been having, because stackoverflow no longer seems suitable for asking questions about programming issues.

Screaming into the void of the blogosphere is catharsis for getting my SO question closed.

And because I know you're all nosy, the SO question is here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79605462/high-cpu-usage-... . Please feel free to point out more ways in which I screwed up asking my SO question.

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1. rendaw ◴[09 May 25 02:53 UTC] No.43933405[source]▶
Just anecdoting, a couple weeks ago I asked my first question about the definition of `width` in CSS and how it pertains to minimum size calculations.

It was immediately closed as off-topic with 3 votes. One commenter asked "can't you figure that out using developer tools?"

It was eventually reopened, but I'm never asking a question there again. FWIW one of the governing web bodies essentially says "If you have technical questions, ask them on SO and not here" - I take this to mean that they don't care if you are able to answer your question, they just want you to go away.

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2. prinny_ ◴[09 May 25 13:33 UTC] No.43936545[source]▶
I have stopped asking questions there. The moderation is so heavy handed it astonished me. I asked a question about some typescript types of an external library, the very author of those types replied and answered my question and I replied that I was happy with his answer and to thank him for his work on the library. The mods deleted my reply.

Was it so important for the quality of the site to delete a reply thanking someone for their OSS contribution? Is SO a better site now? Meanwhile they have 10 year old answers still up, with no way to indicate they are outdated unless the author themselves goes through the trouble of updating their answer.