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In the case of Stack Overflow, I would argue its gamification creates a lot of low-quality answers. Many reeks of someone who knew nothing about the question bu
by erikbye 7y ago
In the case of Stack Overflow, I would argue its gamification creates a lot of low-quality answers. Many reeks of someone who knew nothing about the question but did some hasty googling to score points. Now they propagate misinformed/wrong, and outdated information.
- Double_a_92 7y agoYou get quickly muted on SO if most of your answers aren't upvoted. Make it actually kinda frustrating to start helping over there. You basically can't answer a beginner question, because they probably have a new account and can't vote yet, so your (possibly good) answer gets 0 likes... Do that a few times and you get banned from answering.
- erikbye 7y agoThe issue is that these bad answers are frequently upvoted.
- Double_a_92 7y agoAre you sure? I was talking about new users having very specific questions that nobody else is likely to have. They can't upvote, and nobody else will probably ever search for that specific thing. So it stays at 0 which harms your "score".