Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
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Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
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Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
#2> The key to Stack Overflow’s future and growth are the millions of developers from around the world who find the site useful, but who haven’t yet been welcomed into the community. We need to expand our reach and engagement to ensure these developers join the conversation and push their own learning to new heights.
The key to stack overflow's future is providing useful answers to various programming questions, facilitating the asking and answering of these questions, and providing an easy way to find the answers to your questions.
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#3> The key to Stack Overflow’s future and growth are the millions of developers from around the world who find the site useful, but who haven’t yet been welcomed into the community. We need to expand our reach and engagement to ensure these developers join the conversation and push their own learning to new heights. The key to stack overflow's future is providing useful answers to various programming questions, facili…
Your comment might be a duplicate of one made two months ago in a post about photographing cabbages in Sri Lanka.
Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
#4The first half of the article contains a huge amount of gloating about the size and reach of Stack Overflow. Then the second half of the article has gems like
> in order to continue to fuel our growth
Why does it have to be this way? SO is an immensely useful resource and a sustainable business. Why does every company need to continue to grow until they lose the essence of what made them good? Why can't companies be satisfied with making a decent chunk of change, paying their employees a fair wage and delivering value to their customer base?
Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
#5> The key to Stack Overflow’s future and growth are the millions of developers from around the world who find the site useful, but who haven’t yet been welcomed into the community. We need to expand our reach and engagement to ensure these developers join the conversation and push their own learning to new heights. The key to stack overflow's future is providing useful answers to various programming questions, facili…
Your comment might be a duplicate of one made two months ago in a post about photographing cabbages in Sri Lanka.
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Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
#6The first half of the article contains a huge amount of gloating about the size and reach of Stack Overflow. Then the second half of the article has gems like > in order to continue to fuel our growth Why does it have to be this way? SO is an immensely useful resource and a sustainable business. Why does every company need to continue to grow until they lose the essence of what made them good? Why can't companies be…
The company took VC money, growing in a sensible and sustainable way isn't an option. They're targeting an IPO according to the former CEO and co-founder Joel Spolsky, which means they need to grow 10X in the near future.
They're making around 70 million a year now, 44 million from the job platform, 16 million from ads and the rest from the private SO Teams/Enterprise software (28 large corporations are paying 1 million+, I know this doesn't add up entirely, but that's the only information publicly available that I know of). The numbers are all from the following interview with Joel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1275&v=zMfxd9y0c...
Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
#7> The key to Stack Overflow’s future and growth are the millions of developers from around the world who find the site useful, but who haven’t yet been welcomed into the community. We need to expand our reach and engagement to ensure these developers join the conversation and push their own learning to new heights. The key to stack overflow's future is providing useful answers to various programming questions, facili…
Your comment might be a duplicate of one made two months ago in a post about photographing cabbages in Sri Lanka.
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Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
#8> The key to Stack Overflow’s future and growth are the millions of developers from around the world who find the site useful, but who haven’t yet been welcomed into the community. We need to expand our reach and engagement to ensure these developers join the conversation and push their own learning to new heights. The key to stack overflow's future is providing useful answers to various programming questions, facili…
Your comment might be a duplicate of one made two months ago in a post about photographing cabbages in Sri Lanka.
Doesn't that just drive you nuts?
Cabbages just sneak up on you like that.
I've had plenty of genuinely unique questions marked as "duplicate".
Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
#9The first half of the article contains a huge amount of gloating about the size and reach of Stack Overflow. Then the second half of the article has gems like > in order to continue to fuel our growth Why does it have to be this way? SO is an immensely useful resource and a sustainable business. Why does every company need to continue to grow until they lose the essence of what made them good? Why can't companies be…
The company took VC money, growing in a sensible and sustainable way isn't an option. They're targeting an IPO according to the former CEO and co-founder Joel Spolsky, which means they need to grow 10X in the near future. They're making around 70 million a year now, 44 million from the job platform, 16 million from ads and the rest from the private SO Teams/Enterprise software (28 large corporations are paying 1 mill…
I hate how hard it would be for a competitor to come into the market now and attempt to build the same knowledge bank StackOverflow can now gatekeep. We've commercialized data hoarding and segregation... is the end game for StackOverflow to become Elsevier for programming?
Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
#10For those unaware of the context, StackExchange fired a (volunteer) moderator in September causing a wave of moderator resignations. Now in January they fired two Community Managers (ie. employees) and a third CM resigned.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/342039/firing-commu...