I've been on vacation, so I haven't been
following the Stack Overflow moderator
strike.1 Not that there has
been much progress. Negotiations stalled for a variety of
reasons. Meanwhile
Stack Overflow's CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, dug the company's hole a
bit deeper during an interview with
VentureB...
His golden parachute value is tied to the stock value of the company, so of course he doesn't care about long term projections, only short term while he's still at the company for a couple years.
Shh the people are frothing at the mouth. Protect yourself and your own, grab the popcorn and enjoy the show. I think we are pretty much past rationalizing.
The Stack Overflow user interface doesn't understand Stack Overflow if "closed as duplicate" is so common. A wiki would have been better instead of a Q&A site
The real problem is honesty of the users and rewarding system. Why do people copy and paste answers from chatgpt? Or even spend time to create bots? Because there is some kind of reward for them. The reward is what needs to change. The reward is the driving force to "cheat". Why are these people doing it? What's the reward they are after? I have no idea. But there is the problem to solve