> Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.
Maybe that's a problem. I don't know.
I'd rather see them address the problem of rampant question closures for dubious reasons and people who like to treat questions like a damn medium post.
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Okay so reading further that is what it's about.
What the hell does it have to do with minorities and women?
oh they told them they feel less welcome. Did they say why, cause I don't see it here.
This just feels like dressing up a very real, very broad problem as an issue for women and people of color so they can get extra bonus points by focusing on it.
I think they see the problem, they are just dressing it up.
It's a tough problem, since community moderation of this sort seems to almost inevitably lead to some individuals who take it on themselves to obsessively shape the site to their own warped vision. Wikipedia has the same issue. Reddit avoids it by fracturing into small communities, and poor modding leads to death (or alt-right infiltration, ugh).
If they want to say it is worse for women and minorities, which could be entirely true, then my worry is they just try to bring those groups up to the often shitty baseline where perfectly reasonable seeming questions get closed meanwhile others have people rushing to provide a lousy answer so they can later expand it into overwrought 1000 word answers.
> Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.
Maybe that's a problem. I don't know.
I'd rather see them address the problem of rampant question closures for dubious reasons and people who like to treat questions like a damn medium post.
edit:
Okay so reading further that is what it's about.
What the hell does it have to do with minorities and women?
oh they told them they feel less welcome. Did they say why, cause I don't see it here.
This just feels like dressing up a very real, very broad problem as an issue for women and people of color so they can get extra bonus points by focusing on it.