That was not "also", that was "this is the right way". "Ask questions in
StackOverflow whenever possible" does not leave room for "this is also a
good venue", it asserts that there is one proper venue and others are
discouraged.

It asserts that, for people who have difficulty using StackOverflow for
whatever reason, *they do not belong here*.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 1:01 PM JJ Merelo <jjmer...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> El mar., 12 jun. 2018 a las 18:56, Brandon Allbery (<allber...@gmail.com>)
> escribió:
>
>> Which doesn't change the fact that there's what amounts to an
>> accessibility issue.
>>
>> Do you *really* want to tell some percentage of people that they must be
>> willing to use the One True Web Site, or else go away because they're not
>> wanted hereabouts? Because insisting all the time that "(also: ask
>> questions in StackOverflow whenever possible :-) )" is doing exactly that.
>>
>
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. We're very happy with
> questions here, and I (and everyone else) answer them whenever I can. We
> ask people to *also* post them in StackOverflow if they have an account,
> and want, and have the time to do so, because I personally think it helps
> expand Perl6's community. It's OK if they don't. I posted the rationale
> after that here
> http://blogs.perl.org/users/jj_merelo/2018/04/stackoverflow-that.html I'm
> sorry if it sounds like kicking people out of here, because that wasn't
> really the intention.
>
> JJ
>


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