Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
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Note: as part of the strike organization, this post is a mirror of a post on MSE Introduction As of today, June 5th, 2023, a large number of moderators, curators, contributors, and users from around

Why you should know: StackOverflow is facing a mod strike in a similar way as Reddit’s mod strike. They are doing this in response to StackOverflow’s failure to address it’s promises and provide moderation tools

  • sebinspaceEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    To be fair, did anyone ever actually like Stack?

    • @fluxionEnglish
      37•1 year ago

      I liked it the hundreds of times it was an accurate first hit for my Google queries

    • @Cringe2793English
      8•1 year ago

      I don’t like it, but I begrudgingly accept that it is kind of useful. There are a lot of people there who are unnecessarily rude af, especially to newbies.

      • sebinspaceEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Some people can only find meaning in life by holding their own intellect so high, because the bottom of the bottle in their hand is so fucken low.

    • @minorninthEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      It can be a great resource if you put time into writing really good questions. I’ve gotten dozens of fantastic answers over the years, and thousands of times I’ve found the question I wanted to ask already answered.

      When someone complains about StackOverflow, I always ask to see their question. What I observe is:

      • The vast majority of the time, they just didn’t provide nearly enough information to answer the question.
      • A lot of the time people got upset because of perceived rudeness, even though they got an answer to their question. StackOverflow tends to be direct / blunt, which isn’t necessarily rude, though it’s definitely not friendly
      • People got upset that a question was marked as a duplicate, when it clearly was a duplicate to me, they just didn’t understand how the duplicate applied to their case

      However, 10% of the time, the answer really was wrong.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Many years ago I liked the idea of it and thought it would turn out great. It never happened.

      While every now and then I do get something useful out of it, most times a Google result puts me there the answers are either wrong, outdated or filled with broken links.