Timeline for What about the community is "toxic" to new users?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 9:16 | comment | added | MechMK1 | Yes, absolutely. I don't blame anyone for not sharing my area of expertise. | |
| Jun 14, 2020 at 19:12 | comment | added | Walter Mitty | Information security... I agree. I was thinking IT overall, there are plentty of fields where you never deal with IP adresses. | |
| Jun 14, 2020 at 19:01 | comment | added | MechMK1 | If an information security professional would have such a glaring gap of knowledge, I'd consider this...troublesome. However, I do understand what you're trying to get at. I guess in the end, it all boils down to the fact that most "veterans" care about SE as a platform, whereas most newcomers care about getting their one question answered, regardless of how much value it provides for others. There is an inherent gap in what people want, and this will inevitably result in friction. | |
| Jun 14, 2020 at 18:19 | comment | added | Walter Mitty | Yes, there are plenty of questions that must have been asked by non professionals. There are also questions asked by professionals who are asking about an area outside their expertise. There are even plenty of professionals who don't know that an IP is not an attribute of a device. | |
| Jun 14, 2020 at 17:55 | comment | added | MechMK1 | I value your answer, but I am a bit torn on the idea that newcomers consider themselves professionals. I've seen more than enough questions on security from folks who are clearly not professionals (which is not a bad thing per se), and who act rather rudely to being told that their question is off-topic, lacking details or fundamentally unanswerable (e.g. "What is this device with this IP?"). | |
| Jun 14, 2020 at 17:10 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Active reading.
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| Jun 14, 2020 at 16:56 | history | answered | Walter Mitty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |