Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
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Note: as part of the strike organization, this post is a mirror of a post on MSE Introduction As of today, June 5th, 2023, a large number of moderators, curators, contributors, and users from around

Why you should know: StackOverflow is facing a mod strike in a similar way as Reddit’s mod strike. They are doing this in response to StackOverflow’s failure to address it’s promises and provide moderation tools

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Unlike Reddit, Stack Overflow would probably be better without moderators.

    In fact, you could easily replace Stack Overflow mods with a script that goes into every new question, comments “USE THE FUCKING SEARCH BAR” and locks the thread.

    • damnYouSun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Replace them with a script that goes into every comment and put “duplicate of existing post”.

      Even if there is no existing post.

    • Rotten_potato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I don’t think so: Stack Overflow requires much more moderation for the comments and answers to actually stay on topic and be somewhat professional. Especially the “don’t just link somewhere, explain the thing” rule might require a lot of moderation.

  • daniskarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Duplicated, here’s a link to a totally unrelated question made 10 years ago that didn’t got any answer anyway.

    • maybe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      OMG these responses drive me bananas. I’m searching for a code solution and I keep landing on “Duplicated” dead ends with dead end links posted as the solution. Why do they leave it just sitting there?? WHY???

        • imperator3733@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          jQuery is a JavaScript* library that played a really important role in adding interactivity to websites and doing so in a way that works across browsers. Its capabilities were fantastic for its day, but newer iterations of JavaScript and subsequent frameworks and libraries (such as Angular, Vue, Svelte, and React) generally provide the same capabilities in a form that is easier to work with. Most new sites use those newer tools, but jQuery was one of the key technologies behind the kind of interactive websites from the mid-2000s until the mid-2010s (essentially the heyday of Web 2.0 (RIP)), and is still used in websites from that era that haven’t needed huge overhauls since then.

          • JavaScript is the main programming language used to add interactivity to websites (plus a bunch more that’s beyond the scope of this).