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▲ eterm 4 days ago

It's surely both.

Look at the newest questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions?tab=Newest

Most questions have negative karma.

Even if somehow that is "deserved", that's not a healthy ecosystem.

All that is left of SI are clueless questioners and bitter, jaded responders.

SO worked when "everyone" was new to it, and they felt energized to ask questions ( even "basic" questions, because they hadn't been asked before ), and felt energized to answer them.

SO solved a real problem - knowledge being locked into forum posts with no follow-up, or behind paywalls.

▲braiamp 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Most? 3 out of 15 is most? What's wrong with youngsters today?!

▲marcosdumay 4 days ago | parent [-]

Right now, at the first 15 one has a positive vote, 6 have negative votes, going down to -3.

The 8 at 0 are just taking longer to amass those negative votes. It's incredibly rare that a positive one ever goes somewhere.

▲braiamp 4 days ago | parent [-]

So, I reviewed the questions list again but this time, since the time I did view it about 9 hours ago [1]. 10 were negative scored, 5 positive scored, 15 0 scored, 4 has received answers. This is better than normal for those ~30. Usually it's 80% without votes, without answers, without comments. So, this is a significan improvement... which I suspect is due the time of the day, as the US and most of Europe were asleep.

So, yeah, actually this looks promising and a movement in the positive direction.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions?tab=Newest

▲cracki 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It is not "karma". It is not to be taken personally. It represents the objective usefulness of the question, not the personal worth of the person asking it.