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0 pointseterm2mo ago0 comments

It's surely both.

Look at the newest questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions?tab=Newest

Most questions have negative karma.

Even if somehow that is "deserved", that's not a healthy ecosystem.

All that is left of SI are clueless questioners and bitter, jaded responders.

SO worked when "everyone" was new to it, and they felt energized to ask questions ( even "basic" questions, because they hadn't been asked before ), and felt energized to answer them.

SO solved a real problem - knowledge being locked into forum posts with no follow-up, or behind paywalls.

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braiamp2mo ago

Most? 3 out of 15 is most? What's wrong with youngsters today?!

marcosdumay2mo ago

Right now, at the first 15 one has a positive vote, 6 have negative votes, going down to -3.

The 8 at 0 are just taking longer to amass those negative votes. It's incredibly rare that a positive one ever goes somewhere.

braiamp2mo ago

So, I reviewed the questions list again but this time, since the time I did view it about 9 hours ago [1]. 10 were negative scored, 5 positive scored, 15 0 scored, 4 has received answers. This is better than normal for those ~30. Usually it's 80% without votes, without answers, without comments. So, this is a significan improvement... which I suspect is due the time of the day, as the US and most of Europe were asleep.

So, yeah, actually this looks promising and a movement in the positive direction.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions?tab=Newest

cracki2mo ago

It is not "karma". It is not to be taken personally. It represents the objective usefulness of the question, not the personal worth of the person asking it.

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0 pointseterm2mo ago0 comments

It's surely both.

Look at the newest questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions?tab=Newest

Most questions have negative karma.

Even if somehow that is "deserved", that's not a healthy ecosystem.

All that is left of SI are clueless questioners and bitter, jaded responders.

SO worked when "everyone" was new to it, and they felt energized to ask questions ( even "basic" questions, because they hadn't been asked before ), and felt energized to answer them.

SO solved a real problem - knowledge being locked into forum posts with no follow-up, or behind paywalls.

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braiamp2mo ago

Most? 3 out of 15 is most? What's wrong with youngsters today?!

marcosdumay2mo ago

Right now, at the first 15 one has a positive vote, 6 have negative votes, going down to -3.

The 8 at 0 are just taking longer to amass those negative votes. It's incredibly rare that a positive one ever goes somewhere.

braiamp2mo ago

So, yeah, actually this looks promising and a movement in the positive direction.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions?tab=Newest

cracki2mo ago

It is not "karma". It is not to be taken personally. It represents the objective usefulness of the question, not the personal worth of the person asking it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse