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top 2% here i can understand the reasoning but i left SO when they broke it into pieces with StackExchange network i actually enjoyed stuff like code golfs, j

by Lapsa 10y ago

top 2% here i can understand the reasoning but i left SO when they broke it into pieces with StackExchange network i actually enjoyed stuff like code golfs, joke questions (minus endless flow of repetitive xkcd references) have always been interested in THAT programming part where problem meets consciousness meets technology. spent a lot of time puzzling around questions on design, patterns - more ethereal side of programming nowadays stuff like that gets quickly eliminated and more technical questions often gets spammed with shallow bullshit i've already checked couple of times

raesene6 10y ago
interestingly I thought that breaking things up helped a lot and that they could do better by continuing that trend.. For me a big part of the problem of SO (as opposed to other SE sites) is that it's too big for the mods to really have much option other than applying blanket rules without exception. On the smaller sites there seems to be more scope for a more flexible approach to moderation as the question/answer flow is more manageable. Also I think it lets more people get engaged by feeling to be a key part of a smaller community where on SO their contribution would be very unlikely to be noticed as the site is soo big..
- Lapsa 10y ago
  it's a trade off on current trajectory - i suppose it does get cleaner and more focused, better integrated with google and whatnot but i find contributing unpleasant. and it doesn't attract the greatest minds anymore (<-- ain't talking about me) when SO appeared - it was like a nuclear explosion in software development field. i remember it was enough to follow some tags i were interested in to easily ride THE bleeding edge without losing all the good legacy bits. blogs, tools, ideas, fun, community sentiment - it had it all
- r00fus 10y ago
  The only problem with the break-up is that it results in the moderations of "not appropriate for this forum" when e.g. you ask about effects of say SSD cloud storaage on your app performance and you're asking on stackoverflow instead of serverfault or soemthing. And the moderation is not helpful in migrating your question to the other forum either. One analogy might be if the US were split into 50 states with their own, strict, immigration policies.

by Lapsa 10y ago

raesene6 10y ago

interestingly I thought that breaking things up helped a lot and that they could do better by continuing that trend.. For me a big part of the problem of SO (as opposed to other SE sites) is that it's too big for the mods to really have much option other than applying blanket rules without exception. On the smaller sites there seems to be more scope for a more flexible approach to moderation as the question/answer flow is more manageable. Also I think it lets more people get engaged by feeling to be a key part of a smaller community where on SO their contribution would be very unlikely to be noticed as the site is soo big..

Lapsa 10y ago
it's a trade off on current trajectory - i suppose it does get cleaner and more focused, better integrated with google and whatnot but i find contributing unpleasant. and it doesn't attract the greatest minds anymore (<-- ain't talking about me) when SO appeared - it was like a nuclear explosion in software development field. i remember it was enough to follow some tags i were interested in to easily ride THE bleeding edge without losing all the good legacy bits. blogs, tools, ideas, fun, community sentiment - it had it all
r00fus 10y ago
The only problem with the break-up is that it results in the moderations of "not appropriate for this forum" when e.g. you ask about effects of say SSD cloud storaage on your app performance and you're asking on stackoverflow instead of serverfault or soemthing. And the moderation is not helpful in migrating your question to the other forum either. One analogy might be if the US were split into 50 states with their own, strict, immigration policies.