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0 pointschrsig3y ago0 comments

As I recall, largely unnecessary. I can't divine someone's intent, but I can surmise based on having worked with them for multiple years.

Measuring reach? certainly not. It was just setup as a confluence plugin by the corpit team and left as a free-for-all with no direction.

> I really fail to see how this is a negative thing

It discouraged engagement. You can argue until you're blue in the face if it should have or not.

If there's something to take away here, I imagine that it's not "internal stackoverflows are doomed to fail", and more "unstructured adoption of internal stackoverflows don't go as smoothly as one fantasizes"

Had we made some set of individuals as having been responsible for the adoption and moderation of it, it may have gone better.

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e93y ago

Even if question seems unnecessary at the time, more often than not some junior dev will find it helpful once your company grows. It’s about preserving knowledge and no question is dumb at that point.

yesiamyourdad3y ago

I don't question their premise, I believe that it happens. So remove clout, it's a feature to create network incentives for people who need an incentive.

e93y ago

That's right. Most people need incentive. That's how humans operate unfortunately and you have work around that to get anything done. That's why being good manager is hard. For example, if you make a competition to give some prize for most fixed bugs, they will get fixed. Yes some won't be fixed completely and you have to redo them but I guarantee you there will be more bugs fixed than if you don't have the incentive.

ratww3y ago

Yeah, sorry but I’m not buying. It all seems to me like projection, a lot of speculation and a bit of pent up anger for people getting reputation for doing documentation work.

“People doing a lot discourage people who don’t do anything” isn’t a very compelling narrative.

Really can’t see a problem here. I wonder what you’ll say when you find out those people are working for money.

chrsigOP3y ago

shrug what you buy or don't is your problem. I don't really stand to gain anything by arguing my lived experience with you.

> “People doing a lot discourage people who don’t do anything” isn’t a very compelling narrative.

Who said the people being discouraged didn't do anything? It seems like you may be reading things that aren't there.

> Really can’t see a problem here.

ok? why are you posting then?

> I wonder what you’ll say when you find out those people are working for money.

pent up anger and projection of your own, perhaps?

ratww3y ago

I never met your co-workers so I have no axe to grind, nor am I accusing them of anything. But yeah neither of us has anything to gain here so let’s stop?

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0 pointschrsig3y ago0 comments

As I recall, largely unnecessary. I can't divine someone's intent, but I can surmise based on having worked with them for multiple years.

Measuring reach? certainly not. It was just setup as a confluence plugin by the corpit team and left as a free-for-all with no direction.

> I really fail to see how this is a negative thing

It discouraged engagement. You can argue until you're blue in the face if it should have or not.

Had we made some set of individuals as having been responsible for the adoption and moderation of it, it may have gone better.

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e93y ago

yesiamyourdad3y ago

I don't question their premise, I believe that it happens. So remove clout, it's a feature to create network incentives for people who need an incentive.

e93y ago

ratww3y ago

Yeah, sorry but I’m not buying. It all seems to me like projection, a lot of speculation and a bit of pent up anger for people getting reputation for doing documentation work.

“People doing a lot discourage people who don’t do anything” isn’t a very compelling narrative.

Really can’t see a problem here. I wonder what you’ll say when you find out those people are working for money.

chrsigOP3y ago

shrug what you buy or don't is your problem. I don't really stand to gain anything by arguing my lived experience with you.

> “People doing a lot discourage people who don’t do anything” isn’t a very compelling narrative.

Who said the people being discouraged didn't do anything? It seems like you may be reading things that aren't there.

> Really can’t see a problem here.

ok? why are you posting then?

> I wonder what you’ll say when you find out those people are working for money.

pent up anger and projection of your own, perhaps?

ratww3y ago

I never met your co-workers so I have no axe to grind, nor am I accusing them of anything. But yeah neither of us has anything to gain here so let’s stop?

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