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I get the theory, but I've seen the effects of that decision. The pre-objectivity police StackOverflow was sooo much more useful (2010ish). 85% of the top 1000
by JamesBarney 3y ago
I get the theory, but I've seen the effects of that decision.
The pre-objectivity police StackOverflow was sooo much more useful (2010ish). 85% of the top 1000 questions had incredibly well written and insightful answers to subjective questions. Things like "How do I become a better software engineer?" which is far more useful than "How can I rename a local Git branch?"
For a time these bled out into other smaller stack exchange communities, but many eventually fell to the objectivity police.
- sergiotapia 3y agoI learned so much as a young dev in 2009 when I first used Stackoverflow. Experts poured their hearts out and shared so much. Now the busybodies are there to police everything and what are you left with... a dead site with nothing but hall monitors! What a shame for the next generation of developers.