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0 pointsarp2424y ago0 comments

What do you mean with "so political"?

The hard part is getting the social dynamics right. Askers want to ask any question, answerers want to answer interesting questions. Keeping both groups happy is a hard task.

People complain about questions being closed (technically: "on hold") and marked as duplicated, but it serves a real purpose as no one wants to answer the same question over and over again. How you do it matters a lot though.

I have a number of gripes with Stack Overflow, and there are quite a few things I would do different. But I see a lot of people complaining about it who probably don't realize just how hard of a problem it is.

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b3morales4y ago

And this is complicated even more by all the "soft" topic sites, each of which has its own culture.

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0 pointsarp2424y ago0 comments

What do you mean with "so political"?

The hard part is getting the social dynamics right. Askers want to ask any question, answerers want to answer interesting questions. Keeping both groups happy is a hard task.