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Community self-organizing Q&A in this form, now I believe it is doomed
Not because of the AI. We can see on that Big Q&A site what we all know well, their stats started to decrease far before the AI.
After playing a lot on various sites, I think I have a mental concept about the processes here. Unfortunately, I can not say sorry to the guys considering the following paragraph insulting.
I think it depends on the motivation, why are we doing it. Part of the avid users are simply control freak. The majority is looking for some like a spiritual freedom and growth. The first group is a small, evil, power-hungry minority. The second is more like a herd. They mutually do not understand each other, however it is a problem only for the herd. Because they do not understand, where is this hellish hate from to close their posts and destroy their content.
The natural development of a laisser faire community evolution is that the control freaks take over all the powerful positions. It has two reasons:
- Power is really important only for the control freaks.
- They seem cooperating well in order to acquire the power.
Note, chimpanzee communities have a very similar structure, I would gladly suggest all the readers of this post, to search a bit around for popular science and etology sources.
Note, as a part of such a chimpanzee community, it has unthinkable advantages to be some like a leader. This is why the chimpanzees are ready to risk a lot - serious bodily harm, maybe death - to achieve it. However, being some like an "alpha" on the internet, that is a nearly worthless achievement (particularly on a small site, and considering the required effort to get it).
It is unthinkably harmful. In my opinion, these control freak guys should be simply kicked out by a higher power. Problem is that such a system would depend on the goodwill of this higher power.
In my opinion, specifically to the codidact, I believe that is simply hopeless.
My initial major concern with the codidact was, and this is why I did not take part much more actively from the beginning, was that I could not see, why and how would it avoid the many evil what that old, big, hostile Q&A site network did.
Now, after taking part a bit here, my opinion is that it could not.
However, you are not in the position to do so many bad, what that big, old, evil Q&A site did. And I do not want to sacrifice so much effort again.
Sorry, you were better, much better, but I think exactly the root of the problem of that big, toxic Q&A site, that you could not solve. I think I am out, and currently I do not plan to come back. Good luck.
P.s. I believe, actually there are two ways out of the trap:
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If the herd understands, what is going on, and actively helps the control freaks to go to better site for them. For example, to the ruins of that big, toxic Q&A site, what we all know. Codidact could do that, but it would need a herd understanding the problem. I think we do not.
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Actually, there is little problem of the control freaks, if there are many, and they need to race for the content and for the visitors. If they start to expel content and visitors, it could be moved to other, more friendly sites. That requires a central management embracing the concept, and a big site network, codidact has none of them.
Sorry to hear that you no longer have faith in the Q&A system. Participation in any aspect of the site is entirely volun …
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So, its pretty obvious the Q&A format doesn't quite agree with you. Your interactions often end up with you being unhapp …
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Thank you Looking at your profile, I can see that you have a number of well received questions and answers across sever …
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Without citing specific instances, this is just a rant based on incorrect (or at least undemonstrated) premises. If you …
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Without citing specific instances, this is just a rant based on incorrect (or at least undemonstrated) premises. If you listed a few examples, we could analyze them together and see what happened, why, and possibly what should have been done differently.
You complain about closure, but closing of questions is actually quite rare on most Codidact sites. I just looked at your profile, and out of your total of 18 posts here on Codidact, I only found one that was closed. Most had positive scores, a few neutral, and only 3 negative. Without referring to specific instances, your complaints seem unfounded when looking at the aggregate.
Your posts are often hard to read. I sometimes have to backtrack and re-read sentences to make sense of them. That's annoying, and I remember downvoting for that reason on at least one occasion recently. English may not be your main language, so poor English writing is not your fault. However, it's not my fault either. When a post is annoying to read, I'm going to downvote it. Quality is important, and it's not our business how or why it is achieved or not.
This is an English language site. If you can't write reasonably readable English, then you're right, this site may not be for you. However, ranting about vague conspiracy theories without any evidence is not the right way to leave. It only makes you look childish.
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Sorry to hear that you no longer have faith in the Q&A system. Participation in any aspect of the site is entirely voluntary, so if you no longer find it fulfilling to participate, you are free to cease participation at any time.
Those of us who continue to believe that Q&A has a place on the internet will stick around; you're welcome to return at any time to participate - or not - as you please.
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So, its pretty obvious the Q&A format doesn't quite agree with you. Your interactions often end up with you being unhappy, and fairly quickly into ranting about how terrible the format is, and how everything is doomed to failure.
As the great Japanese Philosopher Marie Kondo once said... "If it does not give you joy, let it go". Clearly unless negativity gives you positivity, it isn't working for you.
So here's the thing. Both with Stack Exchange, and Codidact, folks are trying to either save the place or build something better. Sometimes both. When you accuse volunteers of being "control freaks" you come across as someone who is somewhat toxic, and trying to dissuade people cause you don't like it. Its a bit like dog park mud. Your negativity affects others, and it gets everywhere, even folks who don't want to be muddy.
So, find somewhere that works for you. Bring yourself and others joy, or even hope. Just not... whatever it is that you've been doing for the past few years on these platforms.
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Thank you
Looking at your profile, I can see that you have a number of well received questions and answers across several Codidact communities, and in addition to this you raised a bug Please warn that I can not comment before I write the comment which led to a fix that makes things better for everyone.
Whether you return or not, you leave this particular question and answer site better than you found it.
Perspective
Just as someone studying animal behaviour can sometimes draw conclusions that say more about the psychology of that particular scientist than the psychology of the animals being observed, it's also easy to draw overly general conclusions about other people on the internet from very little data.
Sometimes you'll be right about a person, but always thinking the worst of people is exhausting. Wherever you go next, I wish you hope.
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