Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow
by xertopertha on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:20AM
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Should get rid of the reward system -- or at least reform it drastically to discourage pettiness. An accepted solution should not result in a reward to anybody. Somebody just starting to learn a topic posts a basic question and gets an answer from an old timer - and they both get rewarded! for what? There seems to be an army of "moderators" who are ready to pounce on easy questions and they end the answer by reminding the OP that he should upvote or accept the answer! Did any of them added anything to the knowledge base? You can get excellent answers to basic questions from ChatGPT anyway. Also they won't allow new members (perhaps experts) from commenting until they have picked up enough credits yet. The whole system is downright silly.
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Ome of the reasons I quit SO a long time ago is because of the “answer race”. The site has always had the problem of rewarding speed and power-user appeal over answering the user’s question, because the first answer to a question is likely to get the lion’s share of the early votes, those early votes come from power users, and that answer is likely to stay ranked at the top of the list.