I've always gone back and forth on the /s honestly. Sometimes, depending on the writer's style it's really easy to pick up in text but some text really needs the extra cues you'd get from facial expression and speaking tone to get it. It also depends on the receiver and the context of the conversation. My feeling is it's here to stay.
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I'm not sure if it's the decentralized platforms giving each community a niche or that the 'herd' hasn't made its way to the fediverse due to complexity but both lemmy and mastodon conversations are a breath of fresh air - it's almost like the internet used to be on usenet and IRC.
I can't wait for polite flame wars to start 😀
Unfortunately it seems like every programming forum ends up like this in some respect - reddit just gets the most distilled hate-train version of it. It's a real bummer since much of the time teaching someone properly would take just as much time as being a jerk and it's just as fulfilling if you let it be.
Did the person even respond specifically what the question was about? I assume they re-wrote the program because they couldn't be bothered to explain a complicated exception.
I don't envy you from the past - VBA is difficult to write in a way that is both clean, easy to debug, and easy to maintain. We have some legacy VBA apps deployed at customers that just won't die.