[nirvdrum]

I've found it refreshing to be able to ask a performance-related question and not get a trite reply about premature optimization. It's frustrating reading a well-researched, obviously informed question about a specific thing and the top reply is "Why do you need this? Did you profile it?". Nothing new is learned and the cynical part of me thinks it's just a race to get free Stack Overflow points.

[dotnet00]

Similarly with questions about doing X with Y where the top answer just pushes some library, a different language or outright changes X to something else (without answering the original question).

I feel like the people writing those answers should also be well aware that often you can't just change the problem or just add in a library to solve one specific problem on a whim. It's kind of demeaning to push those kinds of answers anyway rather than maybe question the task but provide a solution anyway.