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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)
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[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, no. If there were a middle ground, we'd all be using it.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Like Lemmy? The site we're all using?

But no my point wasn't about a specific site, it's about the moderation approach. Do you really think there's no middle ground in approach to moderation between Yahoo Answers and StackOverflow?

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like Lemmy? The site we’re all using?

Cute. Except Lemmy hasn't helped me solve any programming problems. StackOverflow has.

And I think you missed my point, so I'll restate it: If this theoretical middle-ground moderation were actually viable, it would have eaten StackOverflow's lunch like a decade ago. People were SALTY about SO's hostility even before the "summer of love" campaign in 2012.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's viable, StackExchange as a company is just shit. See: then never listening to meta, listening to random Twitter users more, and defaming their volunteer moderators.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Oh, don't misunderstand me. I'm not here to defend stack overflow or anything. They're absolute rubbish as a company. I just thought your "third way" comment was misguided.

But - codidact went nowhere. Reddit and now lemmy have never been helpful for my programming problems. What's taking SO down is their deal with the AI devil? It's funny in sort of a sad way.

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy isn't a Q&A application in the way that the others I mentioned are.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Like I said, I'm not talking about specific sites, I'm talking about moderation style.