It could have been a community, like Quora, but focused towards CS/IT. But it absolutely missed the mark on that one. It is a high pressure, toxic, unwelcoming

It could have been a community, like Quora, but focused towards CS/IT. But it absolutely missed the mark on that one. It is a high pressure, toxic, unwelcoming place. I contributed a lot of Math and CS content to Quora where I had ~1.5m views on answers. I really liked engaging there. OTOH, SO felt like a toxic exam hall on a bad day. Every year SO asked in the survey if I felt I belonged to the community or something similar, I chose the most negative response from the list- every year. If SO behaved like a community, then it could have had organic growth, and organic visitors, not depending so largely on Google.