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

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

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

    • minorninth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      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.

    • Cringe2793@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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.