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Joel Spolski knows about many of these problems and is actively trying to change the culture on stack overflow... needless to say, changing a groups culture is
by Maximus9000 7y ago
Joel Spolski knows about many of these problems and is actively trying to change the culture on stack overflow... needless to say, changing a groups culture is hard.
- astrodust 7y agoPart of the reason things are slow to change is because people like that are in charge. It's a forest for the trees thing.
- ncmncm 7y agoHe doesn't need to change the culture. He needs to change the workings. The culture will adjust spontaneously to the workings. If five downvotes are all it takes to cripple a question, and tens of thousands of people can cast them, then your site will work badly, no matter how successful your culture advocacy. Downvoting has to cost something. Everything except providing useful answers should cost something.