What's up with those passive aggressive :not-kotli...

# android

[Tim Schraepen]

What's up with those passive aggressive not kotlin but kotlin colored reactions?
People that have found there way here and ask a question are 1. most likely new and unaware of "the rules", 2. looking for connection and help from real people.
Are we not failing as a community if all we can do is reply with a not kotlin but kotlin colored emoji? I mean what's the point of this channel otherwise?

[kenkyee]

So this comes up from time to time (also you can see the long debates in previous threads if you search slack).
This is a kotlin slack server (it's not named androidslack w/ channels all about android) that Jetbrains put up to help the community w/ issues w/ kotlin. Each channel should be read with "kotlin on xxxxx" as the channel name.

If you look up, you'll see a lot of generic stackoverflow Android questions unrelated to Kotlin or issues w/ Kotlin on Android.
Also, if you look at the channel header, you'll see that and can then click on it to see this which is fairly descriptive:

[kenkyee]

If you look at the other channels, you'll also see similar behavior, but it's much more sporadic...and also gets the not kotlin but kotlin colored emoji when it happens...
This channel is pretty bad for that though....as you can see if you scroll up...

[Tim Schraepen]

I guess I’ll go read the previous threads first then.

[Tim Schraepen]

@Lukas Rieger I did lol when I saw your emoji tho 🤣

[Esya Bekasova]

I saw a lot of questions specifically about Android app development in Kotlin, yet they were also marked with those reactions... There is a lack of explanation regarding what "Kotlin on Android" is.

[Esya Bekasova]

Sorry, but it really looks like a fairly niche channel (apparently created to discuss the Kotlin Gradle plugin) is being viewed by everyone as "oh, this is a place to ask about Kotlin in the context of Android." Meanwhile, the same reactions keep getting posted, and the same user silently drops a screenshot of the channel description—which doesn't actually clarify the situation at all.

[kenkyee]

Kotlin problems on Android is what this channel originally was for

[kenkyee]

If you read the channel description, is also fairly obvious...