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Stack Overflow incentivizes bad behavior by its users. For instance, I've had questions marked as duplicates with links to entirely other questions... but the
by MCRed 11y ago
Stack Overflow incentivizes bad behavior by its users. For instance, I've had questions marked as duplicates with links to entirely other questions... but the person who had the right answer for that other question, along with others on the point gravy train for it were the ones who voted to close my question.
Appealing after adding additional info showing how the questions were different didn't improve anything as the "reviewers" got points by "Reviwing" the appeal-- and denying it, of course.
That was the last time I used Stack Overflow.
You cannot have a community generated content site with community moderation where bad behavior is incentivized and rewarded. (Something that was a serious problem on HN in the past.)
- Flammy 11y ago> (Something that was a serious problem on HN in the past.) Explain for a newer HN user?
- misnome 11y agoFinding questions via google marked as a duplicate, which aren't a duplicate, but subtly different is really common - and really annoying.
- mistermann 11y ago> You cannot have a community generated content site with community moderation where bad behavior is incentivized and rewarded. Jeff Atwood used to think very deeply about this type of thing, the nuances of human behavior. It seems to me he no longer has the time or interest, and no one has replaced him in that crucially important role.