Hello everyone,

I was about to post a link to an interesting article (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity-bae), but I then remembered that this community only allows questions.

Could we maybe update that rule so that interesting career-related articles can be shared too? The alternative I see is having a dedicated “cscareer” community, but I don’t think it would be really useful as the current activity here is quite low

  • Ategon
    6•10 months ago

    I just transferred the community over to ericjmorey due to them posting in the mod thread so ill try to not manage this as much but I can give my opinion on this community

    With all of the question communities ive found that the posting rate is much lower but the engagement on each post is relatively high. If the scope is widened the high activity could be flooded out due to people unsubscribing due to it not being focused on the question topic anymore

    (for articles formatted as a question) With articles the focus tends to be more about the article rather than the question itself and you get people talking about things discussed within the article rather than it being open ended

    Feel like best thing would be having a new community for career articles

    edit: If having a new community for career articles is what you guys want after this discussion just let me know and I can set one up

  • @breadsmasherEnglish
    6•10 months ago

    but isn’t the point of this community to ask career questions in computer science, not for sharing articles?

    • @[email protected]OP
      3•10 months ago

      Well, there hasn’t been any question in 3 months besides mine a month ago, so that’s why I suggested to widen the scope of the community a bit. And articles would be about career in CS, so still relevant to the audience already here.

      • themeatbridge
        3•10 months ago

        Maybe you could share the article in the form of a question? Like, pose the thesis of the article to the group as an opinion and ask for feedback?

        The point of a questions-only forum is to encourage discussion in the comments and prevent bots spamming article links. If there’s only one question per month, but it is answered promptly and encourages discussion, then the forum is working. If there are 100 posts a day drowning out questions, and zero discussion, then it’s worthless.

        • @[email protected]OP
          2•10 months ago

          That was my idea too, but I had experiences in the past where the moderator would remove the post due to it not being a “genuine question”, hence my suggestion to update the rule

  • @[email protected]M
    4•10 months ago

    Seems like we’ve got all the feedback that we’re going to get on this idea. I’m going to sit with it and return to it in the context of determining what might be the purpose of this community.