[___luigi]

Stackoverflow is a very toxic community. It's not a welcoming place for beginners who are basically want to learn how to learn. An alternative was to use discuss forums (e.g. https://forums.fast.ai/).

I have spent time responding to questions on Stackoverflow, I think I spent 2-3 years providing answeers, and one time I answered a question that didn't follow a weird policy that I strongly don't agree with (https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/311442/opinion-base...). I got banned, and my account has been deleted, the answers still there. My only regret was that I could have spent that energy and drive to contribute to open source projects on github. Now, I have less time, but I answer questions -when I have time- on reddit or forums.