nixCraft 🐧23h ago
I don’t know what was worse, Stack Overflow’s moderation system, which many IT communities find annoying, or AI killing the site 🤔 Both extremes seem bad for the open web…. I still think that we don’t need three chatbots controlling everything. I fear Wikipedia might be next. This is not good for the Internet
Show threadBrendan22h ago

@nixCraft There'll be few tears shed by people who were starting out with a new technology, wanted a place where they could ask a question to clarify their understanding, and then got told:

  • "read the fucken manual, it's all in there"
  • "this question has already been answered, did you bother searching? "
  • "don't do that, do this instead"
  • "this question is off topic, closed"

They could have remained relevant if they provided genuine value and true knowledge, not rewarded gatekeeping.

Show threadRumbles

@brendan @nixCraft

Your post was closed as a duplicate

You go to the duplicate only to find a 5 year old post with one matching key word which was never answered

Jun 6 at 12:19pmWeb
Show threadgroxx15h ago

@rumbles @brendan @nixCraft or my personal favorite:

the top answer from 5 years ago has 637 upvotes because it solved a widespread but very temporary bug that happens to also show the same error message, without explaining anything.

below, there are 50+ "same here, tried X, idk" "answers" scattered through the years with various scores.

two thirds of the way down, the correct answer sits with 19 points, one comment that says "this is the answer", and the other says that it doesn't work on their hair dryer's WiFi.

Stack Overflow was killing itself through a decade of extreme stagnation and user hostility. do not mourn its passing.