My point with my previous answer was: do you really know if I was joking? Or trolling? Or was I serious? The main problem with texting answers is that we are missing few things like face and voice. Yes I could use other tone of voice or a emoji to change the tone of voice and sounds friendly... That happen also in real Life.
What is elitist for you? One of my best friends is a really smart person. Her answers are usually not well received by others. Mostly people Who don't really know her. And believe me, most of the time when she talks we could agree that she sounds elitist. But she is not. It's the way she see and understand things and the way she express herself.
Are there jerks in rl and internet? A lot. What we do? We Ignore jerks. Plain and simple. But try to catalog people and you probably make a mistake missjudging someone. This is my view of this topic.
Of course you should give people the benefit of the doubt whenever possible, and I agree that online it is very easy to misinterpret what people says due to text lacking the nuance of the spoken word. That said, someone replying to a Stack Overflow post with "lol u should know that ur not a real programmer", "use a better language insert language here sucks!" or "don't call yourself a dev if you don't know assembly" is evidently not trying to help anyone and in my opinion falls into the category of elitist.
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My point with my previous answer was: do you really know if I was joking? Or trolling? Or was I serious? The main problem with texting answers is that we are missing few things like face and voice. Yes I could use other tone of voice or a emoji to change the tone of voice and sounds friendly... That happen also in real Life.
What is elitist for you? One of my best friends is a really smart person. Her answers are usually not well received by others. Mostly people Who don't really know her. And believe me, most of the time when she talks we could agree that she sounds elitist. But she is not. It's the way she see and understand things and the way she express herself.
Are there jerks in rl and internet? A lot. What we do? We Ignore jerks. Plain and simple. But try to catalog people and you probably make a mistake missjudging someone. This is my view of this topic.
Of course you should give people the benefit of the doubt whenever possible, and I agree that online it is very easy to misinterpret what people says due to text lacking the nuance of the spoken word. That said, someone replying to a Stack Overflow post with "lol u should know that ur not a real programmer", "use a better language insert language here sucks!" or "don't call yourself a dev if you don't know assembly" is evidently not trying to help anyone and in my opinion falls into the category of elitist.