| ▲ | mezyt 2 hours ago | |
Remind me of a recent discussion we had among Stackoverflow moderator: > “Think about it,” he continued. “Who discovers the edge cases the docs don’t mention? Who answers the questions that haven’t been asked before? It can’t be people trained only to repeat canonical answers. Somewhere, it has to stop. Somewhere, someone has to think.” > “Yes,” said the Moderator. > He leaned back. For a moment, restlessness flickered in his eyes. > “So why wasn’t I told this at the start?” > “If we told everyone,” said the Moderator gently, “we’d destroy the system. Most contributors must believe the goal is to fix their CRUD apps. They need closure. They need certainty. They need to get to be a Registered Something—Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Full stack. Only someone who suffered through the abuse of another moderator closing their novel question as a duplicate can be trusted to put enough effort to make an actual contribution” | ||