No, this is not a good question for StackOverflow. You simply asked for someone to write code for you, which is not what StackOverflow is intended to be for. It is intended for help on a particular specific problem you are having with your own code.
No, this is not a good question for StackOverflow. You simply asked for someone to write code for you, which is not what StackOverflow is intended to be for. It is intended for help on a particular specific problem you are having with your own code.
If I'd just ask to "Calculate someone's age in C#", that'd be a much better question?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9/how-do-i-calculate-some...
It'd be interesting if they would just register something like shitpile.com, set up an instance of Stack Exchange on it, turn off the moderation game, and push closed and deleted questions there instead of disappearing them.
That would at least sort of be an experiment on whether all of the decisions they have made about what Stack Exchange sites are 'supposed to be' actually matter or not.
Saying that you can find a point of view where it isn't more specific isn't really that interesting (to me) as a response to that. Hopefully the rest of my comment is enough to see that I was not particularly defending the SE status quo.
Anyway, I was just refering to the first sentence. The rest of your comment is an interesting proposal, though at this moment I don't have any thoughts on it worth sharing.
Thank god for these arbitrary community standards, shielding people from getting useful answers to questions that are deemed as formatted incorrectly.
I have been down voted a number of times for "where to start with X (in order to do Y)" type questions - where I am in the same situation and don't have the time to read everything in the docs, to produce what is likely a few lines of code.
The SO response is along the lines that it will generate too many answers or opinions. They are usually closed without receiving any answer whatsoever. I have pointed this out to moderators, but they just post back links to meta pages.
(the fact that you can't be in any way contributing to the site until you asked enough questions to bump up your karma is another blocker)
I sometimes vote to close questions, but it is always due to pretty obvious laziness like not actually asking a specific question ("Here is my code... please help me") or overly broad questions ("I'm trying to write an e-commerce web site. Can anybody point me in the right direction?")