Anyone else been passively avoiding StackOverflow lately? And, by lately, I mean "since that last time a few weeks/months/years back when you were ...
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Jason, this is a wonderful article, thanks for sharing.
It's so easy to forget that you're engaging with another human being on the other side of these random interactions. That effect can be magnified when the dialogue is oriented around an upvote or downvote, right or wrong, zero-sum environment.
No person is perfect, and no platform is without its problems, but I'm so thankful that we have so many empathetic, constructive, and inclusive community members here. Thanks for being one of them :)
It's a big problem with social knowledge platforms, like Wikipedia and Stackoverflow.
First they run around and try to find people who create content for them.
Then they have enough content and try to raise the bar to only allow quality content, whatever that means. Later the people who helped to make the platform successful by creating content, get (rightfully) angry.
I already talked ten years ago with many smart people about this problem, when Wikipedia went downhill (at least in Germany). Guess no one came up with a solution in all these years :/
Great article. I do think Stack Overflow needs some reorganization for their rules of conduct. Despite it being as bad as it is, I still love the platform. It's so informative. I have hope for it.