I love posts like this because it’s just a knife fight between community members whose identities are built around curation VS. a company whose user studies all sound the same alarm “new users leave because their shit gets curated”
Same thing happens to Wikipedia. The people building the platform pay good money for user study that show, pretty clearly, that trying to contribute to SO/WP is like hitting a brick wall. User study after user study will show the same thing but not give any way to break the logjam.
So then something like the above happens, with identical results each time. It’s glorious. Meanwhile new questions trend to 0.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 28.0 ms ] threadSame thing happens to Wikipedia. The people building the platform pay good money for user study that show, pretty clearly, that trying to contribute to SO/WP is like hitting a brick wall. User study after user study will show the same thing but not give any way to break the logjam.
So then something like the above happens, with identical results each time. It’s glorious. Meanwhile new questions trend to 0.
That is a horrible website! Wow