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/r/programming should be enough of a cautionary note. The mob is always happy to stoop to lower levels of discourse. It cannot be trusted to govern itself as a
by mattgreenrocks 14y ago
/r/programming should be enough of a cautionary note.
The mob is always happy to stoop to lower levels of discourse. It cannot be trusted to govern itself as a site grows. And most of the Internet is more than willing to cater to this out of fear of losing visitors. I say bravo. Let the 'gregarious' go elsewhere and live in the land of forum signatures, endless bike shedding, and editor wars once again.
- tnorthcutt 14y agoFYI, I heartily agree, and accidentally fat-fingered the down arrow on my phone. Sorry about that.
- 4ad 14y agoYeah, because edit wars are surely better than editor wars, and what we're doing now (with Jeff here!) is not bikeshedding. The only questions on SO are the trivial questions that could be answered by reading some documentation. If questions are broad or open ended, the value lies in the discussion, not in any particular answer. I also found that many accepted answers are blatantly wrong. For me, SO has no value. /r/programming doesn't have any value either, but that doesn't make SO better.
- mattgreenrocks 14y agoSO wishes to remain a Q&A site, rather than a discussion site. They're intentionally limiting its scope. This is a very good thing. There is a huge opportunity for a quality, ruthlessly moderated programming-centric discussion site. I'd argue that an aggregator is suboptimal over the long term due to the economic structure of the Internet favoring eyeballs over quality content. I do agree that SO quality sucks at times, though.