Population of new users grows faster than technological growth invalidates old answers?
Users with astronomically high points are deeply invested. How do you get to +10k points without being highly invested? Expert. Super User. Equals highly opinionated.
I make Python automation scripts at work, without formal training. I fall into many different pitfalls--all the time. One of my "favorites" is posting something to CodeReview. Then it get's closed (because CodeReview, despite its name, has a narrow focus). Then I try it over at SoftwareEngineering, only to get downvoted and flamed because I'm not asking a _serious_ question.
I've grown up with SO as a programmer (BTW, I'm over 40) just enough to be dangerous as SO becomes increasingly conservative and less interested in the questions and more interested in routine administering of rules.
"They should have continued to improve this system..."
I'm divided on this. On the one hand there is room for improvement as tech questions age. I frequently get answers that are nearly 10 years old for some questions. Sometimes they're relevant, and sometimes they're not. The community has MonkeyPatched this problem by opening and editing old answers with "UPDATE 2020" or "UPDATE v3" addendums.
On the other side it's rare to get past the gimmick (voting; q&a site) that make the product so successful. The site's usefulness is growing old, while the community continues to grow, resulting in frustration, confusion and pain in the you know what. It's sad _and_ true.
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Population of new users grows faster than technological growth invalidates old answers?
Users with astronomically high points are deeply invested. How do you get to +10k points without being highly invested? Expert. Super User. Equals highly opinionated.
I make Python automation scripts at work, without formal training. I fall into many different pitfalls--all the time. One of my "favorites" is posting something to CodeReview. Then it get's closed (because CodeReview, despite its name, has a narrow focus). Then I try it over at SoftwareEngineering, only to get downvoted and flamed because I'm not asking a _serious_ question.
I've grown up with SO as a programmer (BTW, I'm over 40) just enough to be dangerous as SO becomes increasingly conservative and less interested in the questions and more interested in routine administering of rules.
I'm divided on this. On the one hand there is room for improvement as tech questions age. I frequently get answers that are nearly 10 years old for some questions. Sometimes they're relevant, and sometimes they're not. The community has MonkeyPatched this problem by opening and editing old answers with "UPDATE 2020" or "UPDATE v3" addendums.
On the other side it's rare to get past the gimmick (voting; q&a site) that make the product so successful. The site's usefulness is growing old, while the community continues to grow, resulting in frustration, confusion and pain in the you know what. It's sad _and_ true.