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I will totally fulfill that HN clichee of people in disbelief that any tech company has employees... But: TIL they have 250 of them. It's a fully automated site

by s9w 6y ago

I will totally fulfill that HN clichee of people in disbelief that any tech company has employees... But: TIL they have 250 of them. It's a fully automated site, huh.

duxup 6y ago
I'm usually wondering about what everyone does at a company. But 250 doesn't seem like an high number to me for what SO has for products.
- KingOfCoders 6y ago
  When I was at eBay, I wondered what 35.000 were doing.
  - dylan604 6y ago
    <non-sequitur> 35 whole people with no fractional people isn't that large o a number. If you use a period for the thousands mark, what do you use for the decimal part a semi-colon?
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
    - cyberferret 6y ago
      In Europe, the "." and "," characters in a number have the complete opposite meaning to when used in US/UK/Australian etc. numbers.
      - dgellow 6y ago
        Not everywhere in Europe, it’s something country specific. Also, a funny note: In Switzerland we have 3 formats depending if it is a currency, not a currency, or hand written :p
    - dgellow 6y ago
      I would guess a comma. That’s the locales for a bunch of countries: > Argentina, Austria, Belgium (Dutch), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia,[44][45] Denmark, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Spain,[46] Turkey, Vietnam. Quoted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
    - auggierose 6y ago
      A comma.
    - jfkebwjsbx 6y ago
      Commas have been mentioned, also ' is used in some places.
freepor 6y ago
Every site with user-generated content has an army of employees of various sorts, trying to make sure it doesn't descend into a morass. The natural un-moderated state of any community site is complete and total garbage.
- twomoretime 6y ago
  One man's trash...
  - freepor 6y ago
    Well "trash" is a matter of opinion, but profitability isn't. If a community is left unmoderated, it gets so toxic and extreme that advertisers won't go near it with a 10 foot pole.
- MauranKilom 6y ago
  Except on StackOverflow all of those are unpaid voluntary community moderators. There are less than ten people being paid by SO in community facing positions as far as I know. Also, they recently fired two of their most long-standing community managers. But StackOverflow (the company) is more than just public Q&A, and in fact public Q&A is not primarily how they make their money. Job ads and SO for teams seem to be the main revenue sources.
dmlittle 6y ago
This blog post illustrates the nuances of changes at the scale of StackOverflow (really all of StackExchange) https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overflow/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overfl...

by s9w 6y ago

I will totally fulfill that HN clichee of people in disbelief that any tech company has employees... But: TIL they have 250 of them. It's a fully automated site, huh.

duxup 6y ago

I'm usually wondering about what everyone does at a company. But 250 doesn't seem like an high number to me for what SO has for products.

KingOfCoders 6y ago
When I was at eBay, I wondered what 35.000 were doing.
- dylan604 6y ago
  <non-sequitur> 35 whole people with no fractional people isn't that large o a number. If you use a period for the thousands mark, what do you use for the decimal part a semi-colon?
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
  - cyberferret 6y ago
    In Europe, the "." and "," characters in a number have the complete opposite meaning to when used in US/UK/Australian etc. numbers.
    - dgellow 6y ago
      Not everywhere in Europe, it’s something country specific. Also, a funny note: In Switzerland we have 3 formats depending if it is a currency, not a currency, or hand written :p
  - dgellow 6y ago
    I would guess a comma. That’s the locales for a bunch of countries: > Argentina, Austria, Belgium (Dutch), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia,[44][45] Denmark, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Spain,[46] Turkey, Vietnam. Quoted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
  - auggierose 6y ago
    A comma.
  - jfkebwjsbx 6y ago
    Commas have been mentioned, also ' is used in some places.

freepor 6y ago

Every site with user-generated content has an army of employees of various sorts, trying to make sure it doesn't descend into a morass. The natural un-moderated state of any community site is complete and total garbage.

twomoretime 6y ago
One man's trash...
- freepor 6y ago
  Well "trash" is a matter of opinion, but profitability isn't. If a community is left unmoderated, it gets so toxic and extreme that advertisers won't go near it with a 10 foot pole.
MauranKilom 6y ago
Except on StackOverflow all of those are unpaid voluntary community moderators. There are less than ten people being paid by SO in community facing positions as far as I know. Also, they recently fired two of their most long-standing community managers. But StackOverflow (the company) is more than just public Q&A, and in fact public Q&A is not primarily how they make their money. Job ads and SO for teams seem to be the main revenue sources.

dmlittle 6y ago

This blog post illustrates the nuances of changes at the scale of StackOverflow (really all of StackExchange) https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overflow/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overfl...