Re:What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
by debacle on Monday October 22, 2018 @10:00AM
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How would that work with Wikipedia?
You're looking for a solution that aligns with your thesis. You're not going to find one.
Re:What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
by k__ on Monday October 22, 2018 @10:08AM
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Sure, this isn't sanely doable with the current state.
I mean what should they do?
Write two pages for every article, one where everyone could write and one where moderators accumulate the quality content?
That won't scale.
Maybe they need a VCS based approach, that merges only quality content but keeps all low-quality content in dead-end branches.
I don't know what the solution would be, but the current approach is sub-optimal. Not because it's not nice to delete the work of people, but because they don't motivate people to do a better job.
Instead of
"Hunt down bad content and delete it!"
they should use
"Hunt down good content and promote it!"
Why not create a premium version of the product that features only chosen content?
Creators can do what they always did and maybe they're even motivated to become "premium creators".