Discourse PR as a Service
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I used to like SO very much. I asked many questions, got many good answers. Some explained things way beyond the original scope of the question but contained valuable information that I'd have to ask about anyway. And it always felt nice to get points and badges. But that was 8 years ago, back when:
- I was 15 years old with very little knowledge about programming, so my questions were very basic ones that could by answered on the spot by pretty much anyone.
- There were several orders of magnitude less questions than nowadays, which means I was the first one to ask many of the most common questions.
- There weren't as many people with 10k karma policing content, and those who had 10k karma were mostly occupied answering questions.
- There weren't enough assholes to turn all the good people away. There also weren't any "why SO sucks" blog posts yet.
- There weren't any other SE sites, so SO was the right place for every technical question regardless of topic.
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@gąska said in Discourse PR as a Service:
There weren't any other SE sites, so SO was the right place for every technical question regardless of topic.
This is a good point.
