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StackOverflow has the same problem, prioritizing question askers instead of answerers. As a result, the site is now "welcoming" to new users asking low-quality

StackOverflow has the same problem, prioritizing question askers instead of answerers. As a result, the site is now "welcoming" to new users asking low-quality questions, but actively hostile to what the answerers and mods would like. While they're the ones left to clean up the spam. And when the low-effort questions are closed that then drives away the question askers too, because all the "nice" onboarding didn't tell them their question should actually be well-researched. Their expectations of getting help now clash with reality and they end up hating the experience. But all this drives views and "questions" in the short-term and management is so clueless it's hopeless. See e.g. the recent mod strike due to the AI policy issues, where they initially wanted to prevent/ban mods from deleting low-quality AI content from serial ChatGPT spammers.

gn4d 3y ago
lol I just typed an answer to the top level question, pressed Submit, then saw yours haha. Cheers. It felt great to leave that hellhole a few years ago. I was a (admittedly lowly chump) top 1% contributor with an account for over a decade.
ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
As someone that has asked a lot more (quite good) questions on SO, than has given answers, and almost all my SO rep. is based on those questions, I can report that my experience has been that I've been treated somewhat barbarously, by high-score mods. Just the mere fact that I was asking a question, made me "lesser," in their eyes. This could be rather infuriating, because I actually sorta know my stuff. One of the things that I know, is that I don't know a lot of stuff, and appreciate finding out, from folks that do. For that reason, I learned to bite my tongue, when they sneered, and appreciated the answer, which was often quite good. I haven't really done much there, in years. I still get upvotes for my questions, years after I wrote them. At some point, people just stopped answering my questions, and I usually ended up posting my solution, when I figured it out on my own. I feel that Quora has turned into the same thing that LinkedIn Groups have become: A haven for ad-scammers and "SEO" people. One of the things that happens on both platforms, is that someone asks a specific question, and ignores sincere, legitimate answers, but rewards the "shill" "answers," where a particular product is recommended as the "solution." I dumped every LI group, after encountering these folks, and I never really warmed to Quora, because, I guess, I came late to the party, after these people had started their games. I realized the platforms were worthless to me. I won't go, where I'm not wanted. I can't imagine getting paid for either answers or questions. They both take so much time and brainpower, that I can't believe that the income would be at all worthy of the effort. I think that SO actually did a good job on "gamifying" the Q&A process. I may have issue with the inevitable status games, but I learned to just keep my peace, and appreciate the help.
- gn4d 3y ago
  Check my recent submissions, I agree. The mods were just as bad as, if not worse than, the administrators on SO. It was actually the mods that drove more people away imho (from conversations with other high rep contributors).

gn4d 3y ago

lol I just typed an answer to the top level question, pressed Submit, then saw yours haha. Cheers. It felt great to leave that hellhole a few years ago. I was a (admittedly lowly chump) top 1% contributor with an account for over a decade.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago

As someone that has asked a lot more (quite good) questions on SO, than has given answers, and almost all my SO rep. is based on those questions, I can report that my experience has been that I've been treated somewhat barbarously, by high-score mods. Just the mere fact that I was asking a question, made me "lesser," in their eyes. This could be rather infuriating, because I actually sorta know my stuff. One of the things that I know, is that I don't know a lot of stuff, and appreciate finding out, from folks that do. For that reason, I learned to bite my tongue, when they sneered, and appreciated the answer, which was often quite good. I haven't really done much there, in years. I still get upvotes for my questions, years after I wrote them. At some point, people just stopped answering my questions, and I usually ended up posting my solution, when I figured it out on my own. I feel that Quora has turned into the same thing that LinkedIn Groups have become: A haven for ad-scammers and "SEO" people. One of the things that happens on both platforms, is that someone asks a specific question, and ignores sincere, legitimate answers, but rewards the "shill" "answers," where a particular product is recommended as the "solution." I dumped every LI group, after encountering these folks, and I never really warmed to Quora, because, I guess, I came late to the party, after these people had started their games. I realized the platforms were worthless to me. I won't go, where I'm not wanted. I can't imagine getting paid for either answers or questions. They both take so much time and brainpower, that I can't believe that the income would be at all worthy of the effort. I think that SO actually did a good job on "gamifying" the Q&A process. I may have issue with the inevitable status games, but I learned to just keep my peace, and appreciate the help.

gn4d 3y ago
Check my recent submissions, I agree. The mods were just as bad as, if not worse than, the administrators on SO. It was actually the mods that drove more people away imho (from conversations with other high rep contributors).