How does #StackOverflow even function?
I have a solution to a hot and pressing #ubuntu display issue, but I'm not allowed to post it because my account is too new.
Excellent community strategy. Novel approach to attracting contributors.
Or maybe I'm just spoiled by the fantastically friendly #Drupal community...
@jpoesen Everyone's StackOverflow account starts with reputation = 1
and that's enough to allow posting an answer to a question. https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/create-posts
What leads you to believe you're blocked "because my account is too new"?
@bignose "You must have 50 reputation to post a comment."
@bignose @jpoesen Just a personal opinion but I hate it when I am searching for something and get referred to StackOverflow or sister sites, because I know that their policies may have prevented or discouraged the best answers from appearing. I kind of hope they are one of the first big casualties of AI. My particular burning hatred toward them is when they close a question because it has attreacted too many "low quality" answers so then you must haver a certain number of reputation points to even post an answer. Hey dumbshits, not letting people who might know a good answer post it because they don't reqularly hang out on your stupid site isn't the way to suddenly make good quality answers appear (and also I question what they consider low quality, sournds like a pretty elitist attitude in many cases).
I just try to avoid their sites whenever possible (I will look at ANY other site first), and I truly wish search engines weren't so quick to refer people there.
@Lunatech FYI for search I use duckduckgo + a plugin (ddg-filter) that lets me add domains to a blocklist.
Pretty great to keep content farms and other high SEO low quality sites out of my results.