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this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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SO was incredible. I remember it very fondly circa 2011 thru 2013 while it was still growing and all the questions every thought of hadn't been asked yet.
Obviously as time went on, the challenge of organizing and managing questions once a huge base of knowledge had accumulated, proved to be a much more difficult. I don't think they ever solved that, and ended up rewarding toxic behavior.
It's a shame.
Managing all that data was never a problem for them. They had the technical expertise, paid staff, and plenty of volunteers.
The challenge was not being shitty to people, and they failed. That's why this news gathers so much attention. We are vindicated to see such a horrible group of people brought down.
Maybe?
I tend to think that they treated people shitty because they had no solution to questions that had already been answered, besides closing the question and marking it as duplicate. That the behavior of treating people like shit was a symptom, not the disease.