I've been on vacation, so I haven't been following the Stack Overflow moderator strike.1 Not that there has been much progress. Negotiations stalled for a variety of reasons. Meanwhile Stack Overflow's CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, dug the company's hole a bit deeper during an interview with VentureBeat. Not to be confused with the [Writers and Actors Guilds ↩
  • JBloodthorn@kbin.social
    631·
    1 year ago

    I really want to make a “closed as duplicate” joke about yet another billionaire being stupid and tanking their site.

    • baturkey@programming.dev
      41·
      1 year ago

      The Stack Overflow user interface doesn’t understand Stack Overflow if “closed as duplicate” is so common. A wiki would have been better instead of a Q&A site

  • Peregrinus@lemmy.world
    161·
    1 year ago

    if we (re)build it. they will come. these new iterations should be community driven and without a board or CEO to discuss the idea with.

    • Zeth0s@lemmy.world
      201·
      1 year ago

      The real problem is honesty of the users and rewarding system. Why do people copy and paste answers from chatgpt? Or even spend time to create bots? Because there is some kind of reward for them. The reward is what needs to change. The reward is the driving force to “cheat”. Why are these people doing it? What’s the reward they are after? I have no idea. But there is the problem to solve