Yeah StackOverflow has serious issues with moderation but still that does not change the fact that is a popular site where tons of developers go there to find answers to their questions. I asked my own questions on SO about Pharo and so far I have not been disappointed. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:
Serge wrote:
Shall we move the discussion to pharo-users instead ?
Yep.
I was not aware of that. Do you have recent examples about this behaviour ?
The last closed question was fine. Flagging it just gets clueless moderator replies: "declined - The question really needs to be fleshed out. Including the code for the rectangle morph would help a lot."
An earlier one was Command pattern in smalltalk [closed] (you might not be able to see that as it was deleted).
Of the 10 most popular smalltalk questions, at least 8 would be closed using current moderation standards.
There is not 1 question from last year amongst the 50 most popular questions. In the top 100 there are 2, and the most popular one is about Objective C. The most popular question from last year gets 7 votes. That means there are not enough smalltalkers on SO to be able to reopen questions.
The gaming system basically values popularity of answers, not correctness. It reinforces majority choices.
Phil wrote:
Traffic increases as a sign of traction/engagement and we want to silence things. Yeah sure.
Put a tag in the title and filter on that.
Some channels are more effective than others. Stackoverflow is not an effective channel.
Ignoring it is not smart. Answer questions and point people to the mailing lists.
Stephan