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

• 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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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not here to defend stack overflow or anything. They’re absolute rubbish as a company. I just thought your “third way” comment was misguided.

        But - codidact went nowhere. Reddit and now lemmy have never been helpful for my programming problems. What’s taking SO down is their deal with the AI devil? It’s funny in sort of a sad way.

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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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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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