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10 questions linked to/from Do you agree with Gergely that "Stack Overflow is almost dead"?
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When is Stack Overflow going to stop demonizing the quality-concerned users who have made the site a success?
Yes, it's another meta question about the "Stack Overflow isn't very welcoming" blog post.
As someone who has been on this site for almost a decade, who has tried to post good questions, who has ...
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What is Stack Overflow’s goal?
After reading Sympathetic up-votes, it reminded me a bit of Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late? (I'm in group 4) as well. Reflecting on the second question in the post on sympathetic up-votes ...
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Why should I help close "bad" questions that I think are valid, instead of helping the OP with an answer?
There seems to be a very high bar for contributing to Stack Overflow, especially when it comes to asking questions. These standards can result in serious self-doubt, and seem to be the driving force ...
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Trending: A new answer sorting option
Update 2022-08-09: New votes now update Trending scores immediately instead of waiting for the cache to expire
As part of the Outdated Answers project, we ran an experiment to try and surface trending ...
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Stack Overflow is not yet a vast wasteland: a history of moderator tooling
Warning: this is long, rambling and extremely boring. I'm writing it because I tend to get a lot of questions regarding the rationale for changes to the moderator tooling on SO, and I'm hoping to have ...
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Stack Overflow, what is your response to ForrestKnight's criticism? [duplicate]
How would you respond to this criticism?
Here is a summary of their criticism:
A poster wanted a better understanding of a topic but the answerer told him to do more research.
People come to ask and ...
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Why is the rate of positively scoring questions and answers steadily declining?
I looked at the number of newly created, non-deleted, non-closed questions and answers per month split by score (negative, zero, positive). (SEDE query)
It looks like this:
The system automatically ...
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What we learned: Insights from the discussion on closed (and potentially useful) questions on Stack Overflow
Thank you to everyone who engaged in the recent Meta post: A discussion about closed (and potentially useful) posts on Stack Overflow. This post sparked lively debate, you can see it just by looking ...
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The question asking experiment in "Unconvering SO toxicity" by Alex Ziskind [duplicate]
A year ago, a YouTuber named Alex Ziskind published this video:
Uncovering StackOverflow's TOXICITY
One can discuss all sorts of aspects of that video. But - I don't want to do that, nor do I accept ...
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Is score-per-view a good metric for quality? If so, does this mean that SO is getting better content on average? Or is this just recency bias?
I was investigating a hunch: I felt that question quantity was down but I also felt that question quality was overall better. Question quantity being down has been rehashed elsewhere and is no hunch. ...
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