I've seen a few posts come through about the issues the Stack Overflow Community are facing, but it occurs to me that I've never actually come across this Community in all my years using the site.
My best guess is that deep down in the meta corners among moderator types, there is some form of interpersonal communication going on, and sometimes there must be difficulties there. But for me, and I assume most of the people who will ever use the site to ask and answer silly JavaScript questions, that's something we're never going to see.
I used to answer a lot of questions on Stack Overflow, until eventually it became big enough that the Internet Point Chaser personalities were just too quick on the draw to answer anything and everything. Cool. That was the plan all along I guess. So now I just use it to google the order of arguments in date conversion functions for languages with poor documentation, which I assume is what roughly 100% of the people using the site do.
I don't think that aspect of the site will suffer from controversy like this in the long run.
My best guess is that deep down in the meta corners among moderator types, there is some form of interpersonal communication going on, and sometimes there must be difficulties there. But for me, and I assume most of the people who will ever use the site to ask and answer silly JavaScript questions, that's something we're never going to see.
I used to answer a lot of questions on Stack Overflow, until eventually it became big enough that the Internet Point Chaser personalities were just too quick on the draw to answer anything and everything. Cool. That was the plan all along I guess. So now I just use it to google the order of arguments in date conversion functions for languages with poor documentation, which I assume is what roughly 100% of the people using the site do.
I don't think that aspect of the site will suffer from controversy like this in the long run.