This community is:

A general purpose programming community for English speakers

Language specific posts like:

and ide specific posts like:

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?

  • kakes@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Seems like this is confusion about whether it’s a “general-purpose community” or a “community for general-purpose content”.

    Imo, any programming related content should be allowed. I don’t see the reason to say “Python posts should be in the Python community” without also saying things like “Compiler posts should be in the Compiler community” or what-have-you. I think the point is to have this be a catch-all, “general-purpose”, community.

    (Granted, I’m not at all invested one way or another, but that’s how I interpret it as-written.)