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@anildash "Plus, ChatGPT is polite and answers all questions, in contrast to StackOverflow moderators."
Yep.
@codinghorror @anildash SO's average moderator is more polite than Wikipedia's average Talk page denizen imo, to be fair.
SO is just like a lot of older web communities, there are people who have been there for a long time and they have varying levels of tolerance for newbies. MetaFilter is no different. It just turns out that people like talking to no-judgment robots more than many of us expected. (I was just editing the WP page for Replika and some of the science around that is wild)
@jessamyn @codinghorror Stack eventually started to improve on its hostility to newbies, but not quickly enough. Ultimately, moderators wrongly decided that it was impossible to have reliable, reference-quality information without also being condescending or patronizing to new coders, and the community suffered deeply for it. They could simply have come up with norms for routing & directing new users, instead of scolding & demaning those who didn’t yet know the norms.