Re:Why I no longer contribute to StackOverflow
by DanBC on Sunday January 18, 2015 @08:13AM
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The blog post contains a contradiction.
The author says many questions are simple and could be answered by a simple web search.
The author then complains that easy questions get very many upvotes.
But those upvotes come from people doing a simple web search.
That's one of the aims of StackExchange - to create a website that has good quality answers for questions, and to have those answers show high in search engine results.
EDIT: " This is not the way a community of mature users acts." Well, it is, because it clearly happens on any site that has mature users and voting. It happens on SE; it happens on HN; it happens on Reddit (event the sub-reddits that have older readers). It's probably not useful to think about what an ideal adult will do with vote buttons.
The author says many questions are simple and could be answered by a simple web search.
The author then complains that easy questions get very many upvotes.
But those upvotes come from people doing a simple web search.
That's one of the aims of StackExchange - to create a website that has good quality answers for questions, and to have those answers show high in search engine results.
EDIT: " This is not the way a community of mature users acts." Well, it is, because it clearly happens on any site that has mature users and voting. It happens on SE; it happens on HN; it happens on Reddit (event the sub-reddits that have older readers). It's probably not useful to think about what an ideal adult will do with vote buttons.