> Stack currently feels like an attempt to be the worst parts of both Wikipedia and Ask.com. Seriously? I can understand the Wikipedia aspect of it (though I'm not sure I totally agree), but ask.com? Isn't ask.com full…
> I spend a lot of time in online communities and I've never seen anything so toxic. That's very odd to me. I spend a lot of time in online communities and I've been hard pressed to find anything as welcoming and…
I believe the thinking is that what's wrong with it is that over time it tends to attract flamewars and downvotes which are not useful to people searching for answers to their questions.
Why? When you post a single question that gets downvoted you don't get banned. It's only when you repeatedly ignore the rules and ask terrible questions over and over refusing to learn from your past mistakes. There…
> Stack currently feels like an attempt to be the worst parts of both Wikipedia and Ask.com. Seriously? I can understand the Wikipedia aspect of it (though I'm not sure I totally agree), but ask.com? Isn't ask.com full…
> I spend a lot of time in online communities and I've never seen anything so toxic. That's very odd to me. I spend a lot of time in online communities and I've been hard pressed to find anything as welcoming and…
I believe the thinking is that what's wrong with it is that over time it tends to attract flamewars and downvotes which are not useful to people searching for answers to their questions.
Why? When you post a single question that gets downvoted you don't get banned. It's only when you repeatedly ignore the rules and ask terrible questions over and over refusing to learn from your past mistakes. There…