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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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.