Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change

Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by bcoughlan on Thursday April 26, 2018 @07:02PM (#16936773)

I was just thinking the same thing recently with all of the Facebook shenanigans. Anonymity was common sense on the net 20 years ago. Many who grew up in that time will recognise the sentence "We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias". The dream of the net was a world in which only words mattered.

We sold that out when our Github account, SO profile, email address proved to be useful for finding jobs or improving our social status.

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Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That ... by freeflight on Thursday April 26, 2018 @08:35PM (#16937440)

Facebook is especially strange in that regard.

To this day it just feels weird writing people, I only know from the meatspace (friends&family), there. It's such an utterly different MO compared to my usual Internet-interactions that I sometimes struggle how to express myself just because I actually know these people.

That's why I kinda liked having the Internet and meatspace firmly separated, since they started bleeding into each other it feels like everything has just gotten needlessly more complicated and hostile.

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