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I am not sure about one thing. Stack Overflow is pretty well of right now. It doesn’t seem like stack overflow need those people but more like those people need

by p2t2p 8y ago

I am not sure about one thing. Stack Overflow is pretty well of right now. It doesn’t seem like stack overflow need those people but more like those people need stack overflow. I wonder what would be incentive for Stack Overflow to change. Imagine SO ignores all of those complains, what happens? I doubt anything would happen to it.

p2t2p 8y ago
I would like to note that I agree with a lot of stuff in this article - I hesitate posting a question on SO and when I posted an answer I was very nervous. But I think one would have that feeling with any large enough audience.
- blablabla123 8y ago
  I don't know, like 8 years ago I would frequently recommend people to use Stackoverflow. At least a dozen times I did this, not a single person followed my advice, I gave up recommending the platform. I started to think that actually only a miniscule percentage of programmers do use the platform to its full extent. Like me before I created an account, the rest just lands there through Google. Speaking of me, I'm really nerdy and I'm able to turn this "I care that what I write accords to society's rules and about the consequences" switch off. Anyways, until today, external users cannot see my real name although I'm connected through my Google Apps Accounts. It's just some stupid pseudonym with my first name and numbers. > I wonder what would be incentive for Stack Overflow to change. Imagine SO ignores all > of those complains, what happens? I doubt anything would happen to it. The platform would die eventually. Everything changes, the programming languages, the culture around tech and eventually the people. As mentioned in comments and the article, the oldschool IT as I got to know it the first time in a social setting was elite and of low social competence, up to an annoying extend even for me, being white and male. I mean imagine applying for a job today, gettings the same benefits, working hours and salary, would you rather take the oldschool IT job in the cellar or the flashy startup job in a nice office?

by p2t2p 8y ago

p2t2p 8y ago

I would like to note that I agree with a lot of stuff in this article - I hesitate posting a question on SO and when I posted an answer I was very nervous. But I think one would have that feeling with any large enough audience.

blablabla123 8y ago
I don't know, like 8 years ago I would frequently recommend people to use Stackoverflow. At least a dozen times I did this, not a single person followed my advice, I gave up recommending the platform. I started to think that actually only a miniscule percentage of programmers do use the platform to its full extent. Like me before I created an account, the rest just lands there through Google. Speaking of me, I'm really nerdy and I'm able to turn this "I care that what I write accords to society's rules and about the consequences" switch off. Anyways, until today, external users cannot see my real name although I'm connected through my Google Apps Accounts. It's just some stupid pseudonym with my first name and numbers. > I wonder what would be incentive for Stack Overflow to change. Imagine SO ignores all > of those complains, what happens? I doubt anything would happen to it. The platform would die eventually. Everything changes, the programming languages, the culture around tech and eventually the people. As mentioned in comments and the article, the oldschool IT as I got to know it the first time in a social setting was elite and of low social competence, up to an annoying extend even for me, being white and male. I mean imagine applying for a job today, gettings the same benefits, working hours and salary, would you rather take the oldschool IT job in the cellar or the flashy startup job in a nice office?