Timeline for answer to No, I do not believe this is the end by bmargulies
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| yesterday | comment | added | bmargulies | A noble theory that has never been true in practice, as per Jason S's remarks and my experience. It is very rare for the sort of people who are non-experts to join community #1. SO started as a sort of mutual-aid club of experts (I might be an expert on some thing, but need help on others) and the bad press started when the complete non-experts tried to join in. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Kevin Krumwiede | The second community is the soil from which the first community grows. | |
| Jan 29 at 0:17 | comment | added | bmargulies | I completely agree. | |
| Jan 28 at 18:15 | comment | added | Jason S | Agreed, but I think it's significant. What I remember from 2008-2010 is that there were lots of people asking good questions, not because they were good questions to curate, but just because people needed help, and kind souls like Jon Skeet answered them, and the rest of us followed by example. | |
| Jan 28 at 17:07 | comment | added | bmargulies | Yes, I have observed this effect, but my answer is long enough already. | |
| Jan 28 at 16:49 | comment | added | Jason S | Community #3: experienced questioners who ask hard questions. I used to think Community #1 included both questioners and answerers (it was in 2008-2010), but there is definitely a divide between the "curators" and the rest of people who engage in Q&A. I lost my motivation years ago for trying to answer SO questions because of this divide, so I pop up now and then to ask my questions and accept that some of them will get closed/downvoted by the curators, because there is some chance that I might receive useful feedback. It's not an encouraging community anymore. | |
| Jan 27 at 21:01 | history | edited | bmargulies | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 27 at 17:15 | history | edited | bmargulies | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 27 at 14:10 | history | answered | bmargulies | CC BY-SA 4.0 |