Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by martin-t on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:49AM (#46486194)

I think about better voting systems all the time (one major issue being downvote can mean "I want fewer people to see this", "I disagree", and "This is factually wrong" and you never know which.

But I am not sure if SO's is actually that good, given it led to this toxic behavior.

I think something like slashdot's metamoderation should work best but I never participated there nor have I seen any other website use anything similar.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by oofbey on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:36PM (#46490808)

Arstechnica used to have different kinds of upvotes for "funny" vs "insightful" - I forget exactly all of them. But I found it awesome. I wanted to and could read the insightful comments, not the funny ones. A couple years back they redid the discussion system and got rid of it. Since then the quality of discussion has IMHO completely tanked.

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