Timeline for answer to I’m Jody, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Stack Overflow. Let’s talk about the site redesign by Laf
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| 18 hours ago | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | Our goal should be always matching people with the answers they need - and if it doesn't exist, match them with the expertise they need. The latter's likely to be more experienced users. | |
| 18 hours ago | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | @anildash so - one of the things that I consider blinkers for most users is we keep getting promoted as a place to ask questions, rather than find answers. I'm a very experienced user - so searching for existing questions with my problem and existing literature comes first. If the question doesn't exist, I create one - not just so I can find an answer, but others can - we build a resource for the commons to tap on, primarily, and acting as a help desk is secondary. If someone has a question which I know an answer for and its novel I am helping the next person with the issue too. | |
| yesterday | history | edited | Laf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
It's "breeds", not "races".
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| yesterday | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | @anildash It's called duplicate closure. People have asked for ages to have a mechanism to properly give details on how a duplicate applies to a new, specific question. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Laf | @anildash I did not account for the fact that clerks are paid and will indeed do fetch books and answer your questions. I have adjusted my story a bit. | |
| yesterday | history | edited | Laf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Adjusted story to account for the fact that clerks are usually paid, and nice people, at least in the NY Public Library.
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| yesterday | comment | added | khelwood | @anildash Is the person on the end of that line paid by someone for their work? | |
| yesterday | history | edited | khelwood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
typos
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| yesterday | comment | added | anildash | This is a thoughtful articulation of the two primary perspectives, but it raises the question: why do people want to create a library? To admire it from afar? Or to help people learn new information? What if you want information about the Pony Express and you ask a librarian for help on finding books that might have information about the Pony Express — the thing that librarians love to do! Here in New York City, the New York Public Library has a number you can call where you can ask them factual questions, and they'll do research and call you back with an answer. How do we get to that? | |
| yesterday | history | answered | Laf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |