Lemmy is obviously inspired by Reddit. My map of the fediverse obviously not complete, so I ask myself if there is some free as in free software comparable to a q/a platform like stackoverflow?

  • DPUGT2
    7·
    3 years ago

    Are the votes not a score system? There’s a number next to each comment. It’s not even clear to me that Stack Overflow’s “accepted” is meaningful… how often does it differ from the highest score? Maybe 1 in 100? Depending on who asked, they might not even be the best person to determine the best/accepted/whatever answer (though more and more SE just nukes those questions outright).

    The problems with SE have everything to do with their culture and Wikipedia-channeling-exclusionist policies. They want ever-more-narrowly focused questions until it becomes impossible to ask interesting questions they do not consider off-topic. God help you if your question is tangentially related to a second SE (even if it doesn’t belong there), they’ll punt it there, and then those guys will close it because it’s off-topic.

    You can’t fix culture. And I’m not sure how you grow a new one that would end up any differently.

    • Aarkon@feddit.deOP
      8·
      3 years ago

      You’re right that SE’s culture is awful (I just today experienced an example proving your point).

      With the score I mean the user’s score. I’m still undecided if it is a good thing at all, because in a way it rates people, but on the other hand you could say the quality of your posts determines your rating. After all, it’s gamification. Once you implement a metric for something, people will start optimizing the metric instead of what’s being measured, which is another point in favour of ditching a user score.

      Having an accepted answer or not gives you a quick hint though if further engagement is requested. I’d think of it as a useful marker for people coming to the platform where their time is best spent.