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Why? I think this is a rather regressive and nasty step -- there is a lot of good content on those forums (which are, after all, entirely aimed at education).
by azalemeth 5y ago
Why? I think this is a rather regressive and nasty step -- there is a lot of good content on those forums (which are, after all, entirely aimed at education).
- achow 5y agoI guess there must be incidences which we are not aware of. Why is this forum so toxic? https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/36957067/Why-is-this-forum-so-toxic https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/36957067/Why-is-this-foru...
- rs999gti 5y ago> Why is this forum so toxic? I guess it fell into the StackExchange issue, where beginners or newcomers were not using the search and just asking the same question over and over. Mods got tired of closing threads, so the users basically self police by marking dupe or telling users to use search.
- sovok_x 5y agoI feel like it's a result of bad UX design if users ask same things over and over again. StackExchange's engineers were quite ingenious by automating answer suggestion and finding possible duplicates even before someone gets to the point of clicking the Post button.
- 999900000999 5y agoBecause when people start throwing out hate speech and stuff, you have to manage and moderate it. Let someone else do it, and focus on your key business.
- CogitoCogito 5y agoBut why would they remove the forums? They could just stop slowing new posts.