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There seems to be a recent tendency where web-based business that wish to make changes to their platforms cite lack of inclusiveness for the main reason for the
by politician 9y ago
There seems to be a recent tendency where web-based business that wish to make changes to their platforms cite lack of inclusiveness for the main reason for the change.
SO is a trash fire. For everyone, not "women", not "people of color", not "people without color", not "groups". Everyone.
It's an openly hostile place where mods close questions unrelated to their expertise based on the whims of those in private chat rooms while belittling the questioner with those "your question was closed because X" explainer boxes.
It would be refreshing if they just said something like "We've realized that SO is a hostile place, and it's not better if you just happen to be a white man."
If you read their change list, nothing there has anything to do with "identity". It's just a list of very small tweaks.
- weberc2 9y agoI agree that SO has an arrogance problem and the diversity appeal is pandering, but the "trash fire" characterization is too hyperbolic. The site is still immensely useful if suboptimal.
- Karunamon 9y agoSO is a trash fire that has some really great content down in the basement, [beware of leopard metaphor elided]. But the problem is the people on the ground floor that the average new user will run into are, to put not too fine a point on it, a buncha jerks. Great place for finding answers to older common questions, really awful place for asking new ones.
- Someone1234 9y ago> Great place for finding answers to older common questions, really awful place for asking new ones. It might just be me, but I've found it substantially harder to find good Q/As on SO for newer topics and frameworks. You ask about a technology which existed in 2014 and there are high quality detailed posts all about it, with different viewpoints, upsides/downsides, etc. But you do the same with a technology popularized in 2017 (and I'm talking highly popular stuff) and yet slim pickings from SO.
- politician 9y agoI've seen that too, and strongly suspect that's because everyone that tries to post is beaten down by overzealous mods - so no one tries anymore. I don't. You have to perfectly craft questions to sneak past the fast-close and you-should-do-X karma farming traps. It's not worth the time trying to predict how today's trolls will close your question.
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- yellowapple 9y agoIt's only "immensely useful" if you seek the solution to a problem that's already been solved (and actually solved, not just happening to share a few keywords with a different problem and thus marked as a duplicate). If your problem has not yet been solved (especially if it's similar enough to another problem to look like a "duplicate" to someone who does not actually understand the problem), then "trash fire" is hypobolic if anything (is that a word? It should be a word).
- mike00632 9y agoThis comment is being deleted. Your account is downvoted and restricted from posting additional comments. Reason: "hypobolic" is too similar to "hyperbolic". Next time use the search function and avoid posting redundant comments.
- jpalomaki 9y agoThere should be probably some limits that would prevent people from participting in closing questions outside their expertise. Expertise could be measured on how much points you have collected on related topics. Sometimes you really need to deeply understand the topic to judge if a question is valid.