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Re: Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow

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Post by lenkite »

fishtoaster wrote: post #36

I think a common misunderstanding about Stack Overflow is that it's a place to get your questions answered. It's not - that's only a secondary use case. The primary purpose of S.O. is to produce a searchable corpus of answers with few duplicates and pretty high-quality answers. They're optimizing for being the first google result for "how to do X in Y language." They're not optimizing for being the best place for an…

"The primary purpose of S.O. is to produce a searchable corpus of answers with few duplicates and pretty high-quality answers"

Fixed to: "The primary purpose of S.O. is to produce a searchable corpus of answers with few duplicates and pretty OUTDATED answers"

Re: Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow

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Post by lenkite »

michaelt wrote: post #182
marcus_holmes wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get that technically this is correct (the best kind of correct). But the UX of the site is basically "post a question, get modded to shit" now. I don't think the original author is complaining about the functionality, or even the community (though debatable). I think they're complaining about the UX. And that's not something we can argue with - they think they're posting valid questions, and their experience is tha…

> But the UX of the site is basically "post a question, get modded to shit" now. I'm sympathetic - but have you ever noticed, when people complain about their questions being closed unfairly, how rarely they provide links to the questions? If I'd posted 5 great questions, they'd all been unfairly closed, and I wanted to convince other people that was the case, I'd be linking to them - why wouldn't I present the prima…

IMHO question closure should be a vote left to the community and not one angry moderator. Where people browsing questions can vote on whether it is a complete duplicate or still provides value to the reader.
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