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> Is this satire? Stack Overflow is infamous for how hostile its culture is towards people asking questions. I don't think any CEO or PR department would willi

> Is this satire? Stack Overflow is infamous for how hostile its culture is towards people asking questions. I don't think any CEO or PR department would willingly admit such things...

p-e-w 3y ago
That may be true, but there is usually a limit to how much hypocrisy such posts contain. I'm pretty sure that after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP didn't put out press releases containing quotes that praised the company's stellar environmental record. The above is pretty much the equivalent of that for Stack Overflow.
- bombcar 3y ago
  They’re saying that it’s a safe space because you and your gender/pronouns/etc will be highly respected as your question is closed as redundant to an unrelated question from fifteen years ago. They have no idea how to solve the real underlying problems so they’re rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.
  - version_five 3y ago
    I though you were making a joke, but this is actually serious (also posted in another thread): https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/10/iterating-on-inclusion/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/10/iterating-on-inclusion... I thought it was funny as satire, now it's sad.
    - bombcar 3y ago
      You can’t fix a problem management won’t acknowledge and management will never acknowledge a problem they don’t know how to fix. It’s a vicious cycle.
    - ryandrake 3y ago
      I can just imagine their internal mod training materials: Problematic: "user64738's answer is an obvious duplicate of [URL], his answer is stupid, and he is stupid." Consider changing to: "user64738's answer is an obvious duplicate of [URL], *their* answer is stupid, and *they* are stupid." Real life is becoming satire. I can't wait to read business books 40 years from now. "In the beginning of the 21st century, corporations erased trillions of dollars of shareholder value. But don't forget: While they were incinerating money and laying off workers, they all changed their internal technical processes to rename 'master' to 'main' and changed their codes of conduct to stop misgendering people."

> Is this satire? Stack Overflow is infamous for how hostile its culture is towards people asking questions. I don't think any CEO or PR department would willingly admit such things...

p-e-w 3y ago

That may be true, but there is usually a limit to how much hypocrisy such posts contain. I'm pretty sure that after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP didn't put out press releases containing quotes that praised the company's stellar environmental record. The above is pretty much the equivalent of that for Stack Overflow.

bombcar 3y ago
They’re saying that it’s a safe space because you and your gender/pronouns/etc will be highly respected as your question is closed as redundant to an unrelated question from fifteen years ago. They have no idea how to solve the real underlying problems so they’re rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.
- version_five 3y ago
  I though you were making a joke, but this is actually serious (also posted in another thread): https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/10/iterating-on-inclusion/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/10/iterating-on-inclusion... I thought it was funny as satire, now it's sad.
  - bombcar 3y ago
    You can’t fix a problem management won’t acknowledge and management will never acknowledge a problem they don’t know how to fix. It’s a vicious cycle.
  - ryandrake 3y ago
    I can just imagine their internal mod training materials: Problematic: "user64738's answer is an obvious duplicate of [URL], his answer is stupid, and he is stupid." Consider changing to: "user64738's answer is an obvious duplicate of [URL], *their* answer is stupid, and *they* are stupid." Real life is becoming satire. I can't wait to read business books 40 years from now. "In the beginning of the 21st century, corporations erased trillions of dollars of shareholder value. But don't forget: While they were incinerating money and laying off workers, they all changed their internal technical processes to rename 'master' to 'main' and changed their codes of conduct to stop misgendering people."