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by paulmd 1053 days ago
Yeah, the CEO nailed the problem 5 years ago and tried to fix it. The community was having absolutely none of it - meta overflow more or less had a collective “are we so wrong? no, it’s the questionmakers who are wrong…” and then went right back to it.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-ve...

What do you do with the fact that your core contributors are toxic manchildren who love the ability to push buttons at people for daring to ask a question? Build something new where they’re not the core contributors.

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I guess all the people downvoting are moderators on SO who are upset they killed a community.