Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions

• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t think there’s any middle ground between the two? None whatsoever?

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  • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, no. If there were a middle ground, we’d all be using it.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like Lemmy? The site we’re all using?

      But no my point wasn’t about a specific site, it’s about the moderation approach. Do you really think there’s no middle ground in approach to moderation between Yahoo Answers and StackOverflow?

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      • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Like Lemmy? The site we’re all using?

        Cute. Except Lemmy hasn’t helped me solve any programming problems. StackOverflow has.

        And I think you missed my point, so I’ll restate it: If this theoretical middle-ground moderation were actually viable, it would have eaten StackOverflow’s lunch like a decade ago. People were SALTY about SO’s hostility even before the “summer of love” campaign in 2012.

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      • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Lemmy isn’t a Q&A application in the way that the others I mentioned are.

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  • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Of course there’s a middle ground, that’s much closer in my ideal world to StackOverflow than it is to Yahoo Answers or Quora.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nobody here is suggesting you to use Yahoo Answers.

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      • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m just using it as an example of what a Q&A site with inadequate moderation looks like.

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  • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If Stack Overflow is a 3/10 then Quora is a 1/10 and Yahoo Answers is -5/10.

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