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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] -3 points 10 months ago (14 children)

If the alternative is the cesspit that is Yahoo Answers and Quora, I'll take the heavy-handed moderation of StackOverflow.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (13 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    Nobody here is suggesting for you to use Yahoo Answers.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I'm just using it as an example of what a Q&A site with inadequate moderation looks like. If you can't see that then I don't think we're going to see eye to eye no matter how long this discussion continues.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    By "inadequate" I don't mean having room for improvement. I mean: lacking, weak, light-handed. By that definition, SO's moderation is if anything, overdone, not inadequate. Personally, I love it as a technical resource, even if contributions are difficult to make in line with moderation policies.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 10 months 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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