• ZILtoid1991@kbin.social
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        3 years ago

        On stackoverflow, even asking questions is a privilege.

        You won’t get banned for being toxic, but you will if your question isn’t a “proper” one.

    • qaz
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      3 years ago

      “comp” seems to refer to compensation.

      • kus@programming.dev
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        3 years ago

        It makes so much more sense. I thought when hotels say comped they meant make something complimentary/free but compensation makes more sense.

      • DzikiMarian@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 years ago

        Well guy complains about compensation for his “work”. I assume he’s ready to shell out a few dollars for when he’ll need it :-)

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          3 years ago

          His “work” as you put it, is the only thing of value on the site. SO without users to provide answers are worth zero dollars, so I’m not sure why you put work in quotation mark.

          • DzikiMarian@lemmy.sdf.org
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            Because if he’s able to help anyone on SO, he very likely profited many, many times from free access to knowledge there before he got to this point. Given activity of average user he probably gained orders of magnitude more than he given.

            I find rambling about money and compensation in such context distasteful.

            SO provided platform which, while not perfect is used by millions of people. They aren’t overloaded with ads and dark patterns as many of the clones. If it’s worthless, why people are using it instead self hosted blogs for example?

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    At least you’re not rewarded with more ads.