Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News. with this important quote: The complex…
Yup, pretty much. It’s that dumb enforcement of the rules for the sake of the rules, instead of what they were made for: to ensure the community thrives. In the meantime they turn a blind eye to behaviour that technically doesn’t violate rules, but harms the community — it’s Charlie mini-modding, Ed showing disdain with “lol” and “lmao”, Fran adding noise with that “ackshyually” without addressing the matter at hand…
In Stack Overflow, large subreddits, and some old-fashioned BBC forums all this shit compounds, until the only users “surviving” there sound like pieces of shit.
Yup, pretty much. It’s that dumb enforcement of the rules for the sake of the rules, instead of what they were made for: to ensure the community thrives. In the meantime they turn a blind eye to behaviour that technically doesn’t violate rules, but harms the community — it’s Charlie mini-modding, Ed showing disdain with “lol” and “lmao”, Fran adding noise with that “ackshyually” without addressing the matter at hand…
In Stack Overflow, large subreddits, and some old-fashioned BBC forums all this shit compounds, until the only users “surviving” there sound like pieces of shit.