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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by jappgar on Sunday January 04, 2026 @09:44AM (#46488426)
It's funny that people blame the site for this.

That toxicity is just part of software engineering culture. It's everywhere.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by VLM on Sunday January 04, 2026 @09:54AM (#46488517)
Its karma farming. Number must go up regardless of the human cost. Thats why the same problem is seen here, to a lesser extent.

Karma in social media is a technology to produce competitiveness and unhappiness, usually to increase advertising engagement.

Compare how nice the people are on 4chan /g/ board compared to the declining years of SO. Or Reddit for that matter.

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