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Any clone of SE would suffer the same fate, I imagine. The community is the worst part of SE by far; I've never witnessed a more toxic, unfriendly, ego-strokin
by na85 7y ago
Any clone of SE would suffer the same fate, I imagine. The community is the worst part of SE by far; I've never witnessed a more toxic, unfriendly, ego-stroking dumpster fire of people tripping over each other to be first in line to complain about minimal working examples and how the question is off-topic/overly-broad/a dupe/whatever.
- JeremyBanks 7y agoThe community has become angry because their ten years of requests for better tooling to to manage the mess have been entirely ignored, and now the company is using that anger as an excuse to ignore further community requests, and to start aggressively censoring criticism across their network of sites. Nobody wants to be angry. Nobody wants it to be like this.
- asveikau 7y agoI haven't been very active on there in years, but I might put it more simply. SO was more fun 10 years ago. As it got more popular, average question quality went down. This gives too much room for the primary purpose to be a site to criticize the quality of the question.
- Nextgrid 7y agoI used to contribute quite a lot on the [php] tag back in 2013 and I can vouch for the quality of the questions being horrible already. Lots of beginner-level crap who couldn’t even spell out their question properly, let alone do some research or provide enough information to understand or reproduce their problem. I eventually moved on and deleted my account. I came back on a more niche site (IT security) and reached a decent amount of reputation but frankly I feel like most of the relevant questions have been asked already and there’s little else to add.