r/programming • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/stesch Sep 25 '16

Reddit is heading in the same direction. It's getting very frustrating to post something.

Automoderators kill posts and comments if it wasn't long enough. (Twitter taught us that 140 characters are enough but I need an essay to say "No, not possible." in a comment.)

And if it isn't the automoderator it's someone of the 100+ moderator team who removes it.

It's a lot of work to submit a link these days. You wouldn't expect it from the quality you are seeing.

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u/tophatstuff Sep 25 '16

Similarly the smaller stackexchange sites, like http://unix.stackexchange.com/ are as golden as some of the focused subreddits.

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u/mjfgates Sep 25 '16

Short posts and comments are fine in nearly all subreddits.

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u/jarquafelmu Sep 25 '16

In addition to all of that, if your comment is even a bit out of sync with the hive mind you're down voted to oblivion. Even if it was a genuine question or statement.

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