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I think StackOverflow could have been saved from turning into a toxic hellhole if they'd had AI and LLMs in the mid 2010s. No seriously, hear me out. SO is inf
by triceratops 10mo ago
I think StackOverflow could have been saved from turning into a toxic hellhole if they'd had AI and LLMs in the mid 2010s. No seriously, hear me out.
SO is infamous for overzealous mods closing questions left and right, calling you an idiot, and being generally unhelpful.
I think these mods were/are burned out by dealing with mostly idiotic questions all day. They default to suspicion and hostility.
If they'd had AI weeding out low quality questions before they ever got to a human (and not the rudimentary text classifiers that were the state of the art at the time) I think the mods would be a more helpful bunch.
- bachmeier 10mo agohttps://stackoverflow.blog/2012/08/21/stack-exchange-machine-learning-contest/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/08/21/stack-exchange-machine... They were on it in 2012! And no, it didn't help. The site's value was in providing users with answers to their questions, but that was never on the radar of the folks running SO. I guess they just assumed the free labor of the people that built the place would continue forever. Edit: I even told them at the time that this was not the right way to proceed. They had no reason to close questions or even review them. All they needed was a holding pen where first-time questioners posted questions, and they needed to be promoted by users viewing them as worthy of an answer. Guess what. They deleted my comment.
- triceratops 10mo agoAs I said in my comment > and not the rudimentary text classifiers that were the state of the art at the time
- zahlman 10mo agoYou might also be interested in the Staging Ground feature introduced a few years ago.