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The Fall of Stack Overflow

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Re: The Fall of Stack Overflow

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Post by IIsi50MHz »

fzeindl wrote: post #143
JohnMakin wrote: post #109

The problems I’ve noticed with Stack Overflow are a few and hard for me to narrow down but basically: - google used to return really relevant results for SO, and it stopped doing so at some point a while ago - moderation on SO has gotten progressively more horrible. can’t tell you how many times I found the exact, bizarre question I was asking only to see one comment trying to answer it and then a mod aggressively sh…

This issue of having the answer in the comments definitely wasn't there 5-10 years ago and makes the site much more difficult to skim and read hence provoking more hapless questions. Maybe they should expire comments or remove them alltogether.

comment-body [ This comment has been promoted to an answer.] #timestamp

Or something vaguely like that?

Re: The Fall of Stack Overflow

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Post by firemelt »

lawgimenez wrote: post #83

My SO account is almost 12 years, with just over 2k reputation and I don't really care. Until now I am still somewhat helping answer some basic questions in the mobile development area tags, my only gripe with SO is the hostile nature of some mods with large reputation. Some seem to get a kick out of this and forgot that reputation does not translate to expertise. For 12 years, they have not figured this one out. New…

these peasants with high reputation thinking they are johnskeet

reputation is meaningless and bloated in stackoverflow now there are many 100k reputation people because asking or answering basic shits on javascript/python/pandas/git

Re: The Fall of Stack Overflow

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Post by _wf2l »

pasc1878 wrote: post #776
captaincaveman wrote: post #773

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They are a user, they choose to moderate or not, forcing people in this way to contribute only in a very specific way means, less users ...

But better more consistent data - which is what I want from SO. However SO Inc wants money and so more users.

citation needed that it actually provides better more consistent data. all it leads to is a flood of closed articles in Google search results. no curation whatsoever

Re: The Fall of Stack Overflow

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Post by pasc1878 »

_wf2l wrote: post #803
pasc1878 wrote: post #776

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But better more consistent data - which is what I want from SO. However SO Inc wants money and so more users.

citation needed that it actually provides better more consistent data. all it leads to is a flood of closed articles in Google search results. no curation whatsoever

If a question is closed as a duplicate it provides a link to the question it is a duplicate of and you can see the answer there.

You can"t expect the answerer to answer each individual question which is the same, especially as the answer might have been given over 10 yuears ago?

What do you expect a good answerer to do with a question asked for the hundredth time?

Re: The Fall of Stack Overflow

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Post by xkcd1963 »

kebman wrote: post #779
xkcd1963 wrote: post #496

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There was a hn post once where OP wrote all questions are already answered on SO. Hence nobody should ask questions (especially newbs)

To claim that "all questions are already answered" is super arrogant. Then they could at least do the courtesy of linking to the already answered question. Granted, they do this sometimes, but not always. Anyway, it's simply not true that "all questions are answered." Often when I've read the answer for a purportedly same question, the nuances of the other question is often nowhere near the original one, leading you…

This was exactly my reaction and I only barely had begun using stackoverflow.

Re: The Fall of Stack Overflow

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Post by admiral-mohamed »

adnmcq999 wrote: post #151
ezconnect wrote: post #135

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I always read here ChatGPT is amazing. Can you give a link on how to use it? Every time I tried to google it returns lots of different results and when I tried it it:s not even usable for basic things I want. Is the ChatGPT you:re talking about on their website? Do I have to pay for it?

https://chat.openai.com/auth/login Ask it how to use it

How to use

Re: The Fall of Stack Overflow

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Post by barbie2023 »

sznio wrote: post #351
Eisenstein wrote: post #168

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The thing is that oftentimes people who want to do 'X by Y' are actually asking how to accomplish Q. They think 'X by Y' is the solution and get hit by a roadblock, not knowing that it will not help them and they are wasting time. This is called the XY problem and is extremely common on tech related forums and mailing lists. * https://xyproblem.info/

which you can discuss in the comments below the question, instead of polluting the answers.

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