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The users of Stack Oveflow aren't the customers. The users are the product.
by jackmaney 13y ago
The users of Stack Oveflow aren't the customers. The users are the product.
- VikingCoder 13y agoAnd by purposefully telling users to go away, Stack Overflow made itself less valuable to its customers.
- EpicEng 13y agoAre you sure about that? One could argue that, by focusing on doing one thing well, they are more valuable to their customers, i.e., their intended audience. I happen to think things have gone a bit too far on the moderating end over at SO, but at the same time, I wouldn't want it to be a free-for-all re: anything that has anything at all to do with programming.
- VikingCoder 13y agoI don't want it to be a free-for-all either. Which is why I suggested: > They could have politely shuffled opinion-based questions to another area, maybe even another StackExchange site.
- EpicEng 13y agoThey have other sites for that; programmers.se and codereview.se. programmers.se turned out to be a toxic cesspool filled with self important moderators and members, but codereview.se is pretty good.
- VikingCoder 13y agoThe problem is, they didn't migrate questions over from stackoverflow. They just made you feel unwelcome at SO.
- EpicEng 13y agoYeah, I have wondered why we can migrate questions to some .se sites, but not all (relevant) sites. For example, I can migrate to serverfault, but not codereview. I agree that SO can feel like a hostile place due to overly zealous users with close privileges.
- ColdHawaiian 13y agoHi, I'm a Stack Overflow user with close privileges[1]. I've answered a lot of questions. I've also closed a fair number of questions. If you write a good question, it won't be closed. A lot of questions that I end up closing are questions that don't have enough information to be answered, or that already have answers (i.e. are duplicates). Also, closed questions can be improved by the original poster by editing them, and then they can be re-opened. Edit: Regarding migrating questions, I've also wondered why it's not possible to migrate them to the appropriate Stack Exchange site. When you flag a question as being more appropriate for a different site, you're only given a few possible sites to migrate it to (I think it's currently only like 3 or 5 of the other SE sites). It's kind of annoying when you know that a question would be perfect for a different SE site, but you can't migrate it to there through the currently available tools. I do know, however, that some questions won't be migrated because their quality is not high enough, even on the SE site where they would be a better fit. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/456814/cupcake http://stackoverflow.com/users/456814/cupcake
- VikingCoder 13y agohttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/152480/python-blogs-that-you-regularly-follow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/152480/python-blogs-that-... That was "What Python blogs do you regularly follow?" That's a good question. It wasn't just closed, it was redacted from existence. Now, I happen to agree that it's not a good Stack Overflow question, but it could easily have been shuffled over to another Stack Exchange.
- ColdHawaiian 13y ago
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- cpach 13y agoSo, who are the customers then?
- jackmaney 13y agoAdvertisers and companies posting jobs.
- izietto 13y agoThe Q/A is the product, the users are the producers
- izietto 13y agoThe Q/A is the product, the users are the producers