Timeline for answer to No, I do not believe this is the end by djv
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| 2 days ago | comment | added | Daniel T | Although Hans Passant is gone, Jon Skeet is still active: stackoverflow.com/users/22656/… | |
| Jan 26 at 19:26 | comment | added | Philip Couling | We are not talking about community in terms of all sitting around the campfire singing together! It doesn’t matter if you “feel” part of the community, it exists either way. A large group of people all coming with their own interests, their own goal, their own capability, their own drivers… that’s a community whether you feel part of it or not. There is no way a site like SO could work without it. Wanting the high performers back is like wanting a new engine in a car with no wheels, gearbox, or fuel tank. It’s not the feel of the thing that matters. Community is required to function. | |
| Jan 26 at 18:26 | comment | added | djv | @PhilipCouling I didn't really feel a sense of community when times were good. I'm very aware of a community now and all of its colorful members. I don't want to be a part of this community, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. | |
| Jan 24 at 8:58 | comment | added | Philip Couling | I think this completely misunderstands the word “community” in this context and name checking high rep users would have some meaning if y it could quote them giving the sentiment you attribute to them. | |
| Jan 23 at 20:43 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | I've learned a lot over the years from comments from other experts on my answers, and from their answers to other questions I didn't know the answers to. When I think of the community in the tags I follow (mostly assembly / cpu-architecture / SIMD), that's what I think of. I'm very capable of learning from docs and manuals, but I'm not going to take the time to read everything, especially about platforms I'm not as interested in, so other people correcting my wrong generalizations and similar things have been super useful. But yes, a lot of the time I can just write a good answer alone. | |
| Jan 22 at 14:39 | comment | added | Peter Haddad | @cottontail Many individuals who reached 100k+ reputation were answering for badges, rep and getting known including the names written in the answer here. The gaming behind Stack overflow is exactly how it got famous and it's exactly why people were answering, but now most if not all basic questions are answered and it's mostly questions that require debugging and no one wants to answer these for one upvote. | |
| Jan 22 at 14:33 | comment | added | Peter Haddad | These people became high performers and become known because of Stack Overflow. When Stack overflow was launched it was way easier to get reputation or get gold badges, so many people were farming it which is fine and they stayed for sometime, but as I said these people weren't known, they got known from the community and it's just pure luck. Why aren't people answering? Because most of the basic questions are answered already, most questions for sometime now require some sort of debugging which no one is going to do for free | |
| Jan 21 at 19:24 | comment | added | rjzii | @cottontail In all fairness, there's not really a good model short of actually paying people to answer the questions and even then, it's really hard to sustain that since you might have run into the trap of seeing the same question on a daily basis. In contrast, when I teach a class, I can see the students develop over the weeks I spend with them which is quite rewarding to see. | |
| Jan 21 at 18:28 | comment | added | cottontail | I think SO Inc. needs to think hard about how to get new experts to start answering questions. The current rep and badge systems don't really make sense anymore given the current rate of questions and general traffic to the site. Because let's face it, many answer questions partly because they want updoots and badges. | |
| Jan 21 at 18:16 | history | answered | djv | CC BY-SA 4.0 |