I asked a question on a forum about why a command wasn’t working. They said I didn’t have an interpreter installed on my computer and were making fun of me. I showed them that I had one installed and that wasn’t the problem, but they continued to talk sarcastically to me without explaining anything. Only one of them suggested the cause of the problem, and he was right, so I thanked him. Then another guy said that if I couldn’t figure it out myself, I should do something else and that he was tired of people like me. After that, I deleted my question, and now I’m not sure. And I don’t think I want to ask for help ever again
StackExchange was the most discouraging place I ever asked a question as a beginner.
The two questions I ever asked were immediately downvoted to 0 before an answer was even given. And then the answer basically called out my errors without explaining how to fix them. The most helpful replies were people just giving me a full set of code that worked, but they never explained how it worked.
So I went back to lurking and hoping someone else has my question.
I’m glad that I was a beginner before SE. I think it may have pushed me out of my field before I even got started.
Exclusively book learning may have been more difficult in some ways but I’ll take it over SE any day of the week.