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C-P-User-3 wrote: Brass Tacks: What other site(s) might I join in hopes of finding nerds who can answer the weird fringe questions ?
CP
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Okay, just posted my question HERE[^]
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I can't help you but you posted in the "Free Tools" forum which is a place to tell others about free useful tools. It needs to be in QA!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Yes, otherwise you get either smart ass answers or none at all!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Uh-Oh, somebody responded to free tools with exactly the same complaint that you just had.
Now I can't delete it.
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C-P-User-3 wrote: Brass Tacks: What other site(s) might I join in hopes of finding nerds who can answer the weird fringe questions ?
Good question. Maybe @Chris-Maunder could help ? 
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Alright, just posted my question[^] in another group here on CodeProject.
I await the flurry of messages telling me to ask google (which I did, twice, and followed the path to increased confusion and non-answers).
I'm just trying to get my screens to fade smoothly in a PDF file.
So far, I have found nobody (including the use of google results) who knows the answer
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I just find it somehow ironical to ask, on a site that proposes a Q&A area and programming forums, where you could find a site that proposes a Q&A area and programming forums. It is pretty much the same than asking on facebook for a good site to post crap or stories about your cat.
I am not sure what should be derived from that. 
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Okay, I just copied the question to the Quick Answers area.
Should I delete it from the Free Tools area ?
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I agree with you. But i guess he just misunderstood this:
"...This is really a Q&A question. Once you ask there, you will then be notified to use Google...."
for "Don't bring any questions here on CP."
Sorry, my english is bad beta!
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C-P-User-3 wrote: What other site(s) might I join in hopes of finding nerds who can answer the weird fringe questions ?
This one?[^]
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Have you tried the LibreOffice community? https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/[^] - at least you will be asking people who use it and may know?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Okay, can't hurt.
You comment is voted up
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Okay, opened an account and asked there.
Because I'm brand new, I'm on the outs and will have to wait
Still no clue what happend at StackOverflow.
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By the way, saw your response over there, sending me to google.
Just wondering, I googled the question again.
I'm the (temporary, I'm certain) star of the internet for this question.
Google And Bing both found the topic: In my questions here and on StackOverflow.
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It's disconcerting when that happens, isn't it?
First time it happened to me, I googled something I needed to do and top of the list was a tip here.
That I'd written... and then forgotten... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks for the suggestion.
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C-P-User-3 wrote: What other site(s) might I join in hopes of finding nerds who can answer the weird fringe questions ?
Have you tried Darknet?[^] 
Marc
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Yeah, that is a guaranteed way to get on a permanent watch list. Just remember, the government actually created Darknet and the Navy created TOR.
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There could be a lull in activity due to temporary to permanent burn out. Most knowledgeable people, who answer the questions, can't do this day in and day out, indefinitely. Also, if you are asking a "rare" question, which is a question that pertains to a topic or issue that not many developers have, then you may be waiting forever.
-- There are no other sites. Honestly, if your search criteria is spot on, and you are not getting the results from Google, then "most" likely, there is no existing info to answer the question.
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I do not like Stack overflow. It can be great, but it is in slow-self destruct mode. Vanity and pride have killed it.
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Bob Van Wagner wrote: it is in slow-self destruct mode.
Absolutely agreed !
The 5 Mongolian Stompers rule has turned it into the biggest clique oriented idiocy I've ever seen.
My favorite is where the stompers close your question because it "...has been answered in this question here..."
And you go look there and you can't find your answer.
Then they explain that it's (tangentially, something they omit from their reasoning) referenced in the 7th paragraph after two code snippets (of 37 and 41 lines, respectively) of the post which "contains the answer".
You know, there is probably some valuable business, psychological, economic, and sociological data being generated there in StackOverflow which could be extremely useful for study. The history of such sites could lend valuable insight to group bechavior, and who knows; possibly economic forecasting.
I just get the idea that there are parallels with corporations of the past that had to end their businesses.
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I was going to write a few paragraphs, and am that glad I didn't because the "5 mongolian stompers rule" covers the same, or pretty much the same, territory. The word I first tried was "clique-ish" which was too "My Rainbow Pony"-ish. The mongolian Stomper is much stronger a term.
See also http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/270505/two-suggestions-for-the-five-mongolian-stompers-problem-jury-and-dissent[^]
It's impossible for a decent programmer or software maven to get any cred on Stack Overflow, should they join now, especially the pain it would take to rise to the level of "points" needed to have any say.
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