The Next CEO of Stack Overflow
joelonsoftware.comLike many developers, I have benefit a lot from Stack Overflow over the years. It has helped me become a better developer and, in answering questions, a better communicator.
I just want to say thanks to Joel for helping make this thing happen and best of luck in whatever is next for you!
Related discussion/submission on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19512332
This discussion really resonates with me. It seems that stackoverflow incentivizes very bad moderation: shutting down on-topic questions and good answers, locking questions prematurely, etc.. I'm not sure what causes bad answers to be voted to the top, but that seems like a common problem as well. And as commenters have noted, it is almost pointless for a newcomer to try to contribute.
These issues look very hard to fix, so I wish them luck. For now, I've given up on stackoverflow.