Timeline for answer to No, I do not believe this is the end by Michael Chourdakis
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| yesterday | comment | added | halfer | So, what is the solution? The complainants on Reddit and do not say. Moreover, those who would give up so easily have no interest in community-building; I wonder if they want to ask a question, demand an answer, and not contribute in return. I acknowledge those folks aren't going to change their mind, but hopefully I have explained why the network was right not to cater to them. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | halfer | Sure, there a bunch of people on the site who could have been kinder. If there is a way they could have been coerced to be kinder, I don't know what that is. Would the complainants have had the company moderate the contributing userbase more aggressively in favour of newcomers? I suppose they might have that view, but I wonder if chasing established users away would have also caused the site's collapse much earlier. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | halfer | In fact, if there are a million universes, and Stack Overflow collapsed in half of them, the complainers would have found fault with the other half a million. We do not know if "this is the end", but our quality standards have kept us going for this long. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | halfer | I put it to Franck (elsewhere on this page) that the underlying cause of complaints is that a subset of users do not like on-topic rules. They believed, erroneously, that the rules should be more loose, or that they should not exist at all. I hold it to be true that, had those people gotten their way, the site would have collapsed many years ago. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | halfer | Downvotes on Meta mean something different than the main site. On the main site they mean that a post is off-topic, difficult to understand, or of poor quality. Here, it is used as disagreement. I have downvoted here, because I disagree (the whole premise is faulty). | |
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