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

• elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s viable, StackExchange as a company is just shit. See: then never listening to meta, listening to random Twitter users more, and defaming their volunteer moderators.

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    • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Like I said, I’m not talking about specific sites, I’m talking about moderation style.

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• ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nobody here is suggesting you to use Yahoo Answers.

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    • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Okay? But why? StackOverflow’s moderation is inadequate as well.

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• ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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