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That same amount of pain in the ass gaming made spam and terrible quality answers equally discouraged. Given the volume of at least decent content on stack ove
by colechristensen 3y ago
That same amount of pain in the ass gaming made spam and terrible quality answers equally discouraged. Given the volume of at least decent content on stack overflow, I'd say the game worked. Somebody could try to make it better with a competitor but it would be a hard thing to succeed at.
- lmm 3y agoThe more hoops they've added the worse the quality has gotten. The quality has declined over time, and most of the good answers you see nowadays are from people who got in the habit of contributing back when the process was much simpler, and would likely never have joined the site if it was as onerous as it is today.
- hedora 3y agoOn a related note, it costs my employer way more to pay me to solve a captcha than it would to pay a captcha solving service. At some point, passing the hoops turns into a negative predictor of comment quality.
- malfist 3y agoHave you assessed they quality of QA's that aren't years old? Anything decent that I find is usually quite old and possibly out of date. It doesn't help that asking for a more recent answer gets your question closed as a duplicate, and new answers can never overcome the inertia of the historical ones. September has came for stack overflow