It could be banned with nothing of value lost.
Reversing that would take some doing.
It could be banned with nothing of value lost.
Reversing that would take some doing.
All SO points should slowly degrade, if an answer is still the best 15 years later it will continue to be upvoted but if newer, better solutions come along, the original solution will eventually fall in karma points and the newer, better solution will overtake it.
That's how the site should have been designed, IMO.
I suppose the questions on SO are probably very varied in terms of the traffic they receive, attention they get etc. But there must be some parameters to make it work.
I distinctly remember the number one fantastic thing about StackOverflow in the beginning was that their incentives were so much better than all the alternatives.
The way SO gave you points for answering questions and gave you more for being the best answer etc etc meant the answers you got there were so much better than anywhere else. This is why the site grew so rapidly and so quickly became the best place to get a great answer.
But I'm lazy and assumed that someone has already built such a thing. I'm just not aware of this "Wikipedia-RAG-in-a-box".
Now, lower cost carriers do less of this, and you need to get the high end plan, so it’s not good advice for everyone to get the free phone deal. It is one way a laptop is different. A decent chunk of people aren’t directly paying for their phone.
I built a daily football (soccer) quiz a bit like Wordle but identifying 5 footballers by their career path.
Stating to get a quite a few people playing it each day now.
I suppose if it is ever to make any money it will need ads at some point but for now it is ad-free.
I’ve enjoyed making something simple and shipping it rather than trying to do something more grand.