Especially in my early days venturing into Python (with which I am still only casually acquainted), I’d google a problem and end up on an SO question outlining my exact problem, only see “closed as duplicate” or a bunch of snarky comments about how the questioner didn’t RTFM or whatever.
Why do they hate people asking questions on this site specifically about asking questions? Part of being a noob is not just about not knowing the bare facts of a thing, but not knowing where to look for answers or even what to ask.
While I’m on this soapbox, I hate it when people say “just google it.” because most of the time I see that phrase it’s because that forum post is the first google result.
Used to spend a lot of time reading meta.stackoverflow (looked an awful lot like work at a quick glance). The sentiment from the question answerer side is something like: “I’ve answered this exact question 100s of times, why won’t anyone search”. Then this expands into enough irritation that you get a closing frenzy and similar sounding questions get caught in the cross hairs. And then everyone’s mad. (plus a sprinkle of people who are just assholes on top of that)
It’s even “funnier” when they just sightly miss the question, because they glanced over it and thought they had already answered it multiple times, but just post a generic reply that doesn’t actually help with the nuance of the question.
Like, I get it, it’s difficult sometimes and you’re answering people for free, but instead of getting frustrated and not helping anyway, maybe just leave it be.