Timeline for Introducing the Developer Story
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| Jan 7, 2016 at 19:23 | comment | added | ouflak | @Jaydles, @ bjb568, What does all that matter, if the end result is that StackOverflow becomes a job site banned from half the tech companies in the world? | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 19:10 | comment | added | bjb568 | @Jaydles My point is that the goal of satisfying the OP by doing their homework and the goal of helping future visitors by creating lasting information that is useful to many people are mutually exclusive. We need to focus on the latter and disencentivize using the site in the former way. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 17:13 | comment | added | ouflak | If 40% of the people who visit this repository/help site are looking for jobs, then this site will be banned from my company I'm typing this from (a large scientific multinational) within the next two years. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 17:10 | comment | added | Jaydles | @bjb568 the "help" vs. "repository" debate seems semantic to me: I can't come up with any reason one would want to create "a repository of lasting information, of answers to every programming question" unless you think those answers will in fact be of use, which means they help, no? We've always been about a repository of useful information, which seems to clearly imply it helps someone learn/do/build something. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 15:15 | comment | added | Denys Séguret | @bluefeet I understand that, and it's important. My concern is about how SO is perceived (especially by non users). I feel you should be cautious about this image. There was no problem when careers was independent, now there might be confusion. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 15:11 | comment | added | Taryn | @DenysSéguret You'll be able to keep the Developer Story private similar to how you can keep your CV private to employers only. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 15:06 | comment | added | Denys Séguret | This point is very important. My colleagues might today be happy, or even proud, of my reputation on SO, as it appears I'm training to keep up with technologies and also able to solve problems. They wouldn't be so happy to see me polishing my public CV in order to leave them. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 12:51 | history | edited | ouflak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 5, 2016 at 11:23 | comment | added | bjb568 | Becoming a social media site does not help achieve the original goal of creating valuable, lasting information. By focusing on "more features so people can help more", you further dilute the value in Stack Overflow. We don't need another Linked in, we need a site that helps programmers in the way the Stack Overflow was originally intended. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 11:23 | comment | added | bjb568 | @StéphaneMartin "You probably signed up to Stack Overflow to help developers and/or to get help" No, I certainly did not. I signed up for Stack Overflow because I agreed that creating a repository of lasting information, of answers to every programming question, is a noble goal that I could help with. Instead of facilitating this goal, Stack Exchange has encouraged "asking" (i.e. requesting the over-incentivized reputation-seekers to do your job for you) over answering, focused on quantity of quality, and made the quality bar harder to maintain as a moderator. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 10:58 | comment | added | Stéphane | @DeerHunter We're working on it. The developer story isn't the only project we're working on at the moment. I'm sorry but I don't see the social network here. You have no friends, no list, no special connections except teams, users can't follow ou, can't contact you, you shouldn't often update your dev. story as it's the highlights of your dev life... | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 10:56 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | @StéphaneMartin - why don't you do those features instead of transmorphing SO into a social networking site in the first place? | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 10:21 | comment | added | Stéphane | You probably signed up to Stack Overflow to help developers and/or to get help, and that's still the case. We'll even do more features so people could help more & get more help :). | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 10:09 | history | answered | ouflak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |