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How do you mess up where your product value is massively derived by unpaid volunteers?
by ddtaylor 3y ago
How do you mess up where your product value is massively derived by unpaid volunteers?
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoThere’s precedent, see CDDB/Gracenote.
- jarym 3y agoMany ways, for instance you could ask Reddit for advice :-)
- slg 3y agoElon might also have some good suggestions on the topic.
- bastardoperator 3y agoI blame the unpaid volunteers to some extent. Sometimes they're overly rude, not always, but we've all seen it. You never have that problem with AI. You can ask all the questions you want and it will at least try to answer them.
- Daishiman 3y agoThe moderation policies that lead to this are the product of SO's management.
- vasco 3y agoAgree completely. They did the same thing with discourse. The type of thinking I classify as "I'm smarter than my users". Draconian limits on even slightly adjacent questions in SO are basically the same thinking that led them to prevent posting on a Discourse thread _in private instances_ unless your answer has the number of words they think you should use. And they of course justify it by saying their "research" says this will create a "healthier" community which is of course bullshit.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoAI can do the same thing - it'll probably pretty up the words more, but it's perfectly capable of fuzzy matching a "duplicate" question, passive aggressively telling you to sod off, and telling you that some questions are wrong to ask.
- bastardoperator 3y agoNot chatgpt: "Yes, that was a duplicate question, but that's absolutely fine! I'm here to help with any questions you have, whether they're duplicates or not. If you have any more questions or need information on any topic, please feel free to ask."
- notsurenymore 3y agoI was under the impression that they were trying to shift their value into selling that enterprise version.