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> They haven't produced polarization, radicalization, scams, privacy issues like Facebook, Youtube or Twitter. You must be reading a different Stack Overflow,
by throwawaybutwhy 6y ago
> They haven't produced polarization, radicalization, scams, privacy issues like Facebook, Youtube or Twitter.
You must be reading a different Stack Overflow, then. SO has had
* a grand leak (or series of leaks),
* revelations about spying on users with ads,
* polarization between the company and power users/moderators,
* a radical scandal over pronouns and thought policing, with a SO top manager spewing libel against an ex-mod in an interview leading to an out-of-court settlement,
* and overall decline of quality across the board.
- knowhy 6y agoThe polarization between the company and power users/moderators and the scandal probably killed SO. The number of answered questions is now almost as low as it was in late 2011 [0]. I don't know how to plot the quality of questions and answers but I can confirm the observation of a general decline in quality. The problem with reward based sites is that people (or at least I am) are less stimulated to put in effort into a sinking ship. 0: https://data.stackexchange.com/serverfault/query/303570/answer-rate-over-time#graph https://data.stackexchange.com/serverfault/query/303570/answ...
- op03 6y agoDrama exists everywhere especially when systems aren't mature (ie still producing random effects). Even on Wikipedia. But my point was we have to go beyond the Counts and experiment on Reward/Punishment Systems more. Focus goes to the drama and after that getting all sides to focus back on a reward/punishment system improvement is really challenging these days.