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Why you should know: StackOverflow is facing a mod strike in a similar way as Reddit's mod strike. They are doing this in response to StackOverflow's failure to address it's promises and provide moderation tools

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[–] Clbull 127 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Unlike Reddit, Stack Overflow would probably be better without moderators.

In fact, you could easily replace Stack Overflow mods with a script that goes into every new question, comments "USE THE FUCKING SEARCH BAR" and locks the thread.

[–] Rotten_potato 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think so: Stack Overflow requires much more moderation for the comments and answers to actually stay on topic and be somewhat professional. Especially the "don't just link somewhere, explain the thing" rule might require a lot of moderation.

[–] Stuka 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People on stack overflow explain things?

[–] Alteon 1 points 1 year ago

Seriously. Someone could be asking a relatively basic question, and you can guarantee the first comment on almost every programming-related post is going to be something along the lines of "I don't understand what your asking, can you provide additional context? What were you doing when the issue occured? Were any planets in alignment? Can you detail approximately what time the issue occured using a 3rd Age Mesopotamian Lunisolar Calendar?"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Moderation will probably be done by AI in the future. It's probably just a bit too expensive still.

[–] Disgrace5691 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this being downvoted? This dystopian nightmare future is very likely going to happen.

[–] required 1 points 1 year ago

It's already happening at Meta and TikTok I think

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Replace them with a script that goes into every comment and put "duplicate of existing post".

Even if there is no existing post.

[–] Contravariant 7 points 1 year ago

Or there is but it was ages ago, had no decent answers and all information in it has become outdated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There is at least one existing post for each post.

[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls 4 points 1 year ago

if this aint the god damn truth lol

[–] bozzwtf 1 points 1 year ago

NGL - I lolled