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The Next CEO of Stack Overflow
- neurotrace 8y agoLike many developers, I have benefit a lot from Stack Overflow over the years. It has helped me become a better developer and, in answering questions, a better communicator. I just want to say thanks to Joel for helping make this thing happen and best of luck in whatever is next for you!
- 0x54MUR41 8y agoRelated discussion/submission on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19512332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19512332
- musicale 8y agoThis discussion really resonates with me. It seems that stackoverflow incentivizes very bad moderation: shutting down on-topic questions and good answers, locking questions prematurely, etc.. I'm not sure what causes bad answers to be voted to the top, but that seems like a common problem as well. And as commenters have noted, it is almost pointless for a newcomer to try to contribute. These issues look very hard to fix, so I wish them luck. For now, I've given up on stackoverflow.