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

  • @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.