Re:Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction
by xnorswap on Monday October 16, 2023 @11:54AM
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Almost all my reputation is from a question [1] that I just happened to see and answer before anyone could close it as "bad quality" or "duplicate".
Had I been a minute or two later I suspect it would have been closed as poor quality.
I only spotted it by pure chance because I had just wondered the same thing before having a "duh" moment when I realised it was a really simple solution to what sounds complicated (but isn't).
So I was able to interpret the "real" question and answer it.
But, as you say, never a bit of feedback from the question asker. No acceptance, just abandonment.
It just slowly gathers karma, around 10 per month for ~10 years.
Had I been a minute or two later I suspect it would have been closed as poor quality.
I only spotted it by pure chance because I had just wondered the same thing before having a "duh" moment when I realised it was a really simple solution to what sounds complicated (but isn't).
So I was able to interpret the "real" question and answer it.
But, as you say, never a bit of feedback from the question asker. No acceptance, just abandonment.
It just slowly gathers karma, around 10 per month for ~10 years.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27607516/sql-join-with-c...