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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This community is:

A general purpose programming community for English speakers

Language specific posts like:

and ide specific posts like:

intellij and docker are eating my rams, pls help

are not general purpose. Posts like that ruined /r/programming for me, and this community seems to be going down the same road. I'm here to read about programming concepts that can be applied to any/most languages, not patch notes for 10 different Js frameworks posted by karma farming bots. If I wanted to read posts like that, I'd have subbed to /c/javascript...

Do you agree with me that they should be removed from /c/programming, and limited only to their respective communities? Or have I missed the point of this community?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with this, and I think it may be fairly easy to catch most of this with some simple conventions:

If the post is primarily about a specific language, it belongs in that respective community.
Posts about frameworks, libraries, tools, etc. should either go to their respective communities, or if none exists, the nearest language community.

This would create some gray area for things like the last link in your list, but it should catch the majority of problems. I wonder if this could be resolved with a (new?) Q&A community for people to ask questions that are specific to their situation. That would enable c/programming to focus more on conversational topics.