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  • invertedspear@lemm.ee
    4·
    3 hours ago

    It’s such a good idea at the base level. Reputation allows additional privilege so that the people who know the most on a topic can contribute more than screaming idiots. But the lust for a higher rep score drives toxic behavior. Thus you get people in control that know how to game the system not the actual experts. I’ve had great experiences in that site, and I’ve had terrible ones. Most the great ones are because I joined in the very early days and we were really all trying to help each other. As the rep addicts took over, I bailed. By that point there were you tube tutorials to fill the gap. I’m nostalgic for what that site was. It’s very sad to see what it became.

    • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
      2·
      1 hour ago

      My favorite ever SO experience was this time I found a dude who had had my exact problem four years earlier. The thread was the only google result for the error message I was getting that wasn’t just random pasted log files, etc.

      Two people who had no idea how to fix it gave him some useless suggestions, then crickets.

      9 months later, he had come back and posted

      I solved my problem!

      dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=5M

      I wish I’d saved the link.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      So many things about the site sound great on paper. Like Meta? Amazing! But they never listen. I remember when they took Interpersonal.SE off of the Hot Network Questions list over a damn tweet somebody made. Apparently random tweets get more attention than posts in their dedicated community discussion location.

      And I still am angry about them dragging Monica through the mud.