Two sites with two different intentions. Hacker News is for reading interesting ...

dustinupdyke · on March 28, 2013

I read the thread on SO and I learned. If their end is to help users understand and learn via a question format, then isn't this question fitting?

I get what you are saying, but what if my problem is I'm having a hard time understanding vim fundamentals?

Perhaps "the problem" is subjective to begin with because it is relative to each of us.

GhotiFish · on March 28, 2013

I grok your thinking.

Some problems have subjective answers. They're still real problems. They still have real questions, and more than one answer can exist.

icebraining · on March 28, 2013

SO is for programming questions, though, and this isn't. There are better venues for it, like other SE sites.

mh- · on March 29, 2013

where your question will also be locked...

oh- and in the interim, it will receive attention from but 1% of the qualified posters SO has.

icebraining · on March 29, 2013

where your question will also be locked...

Not if you choose the right venue. Now that I read the question, you're right that it'd probably be blocked on any SE site because it's a poor fit for their Q&A format, but SE is not the only programming community online.

oh- and in the interim, it will receive attention from but 1% of the qualified posters SO has.

So? Should I start posting the results of the UEFA Champions League here just because there are many interesting posters here?