rkachowski 2 days ago

I don't think it matters. Whether it was a fault of incentives or some intrinsic nature of people given the environment, it was rarely a pleasant experience. And this is one of the reasons it's fallen to LLM usage.

wahnfrieden 2 days ago

Unpaid labor finds a variety of impulses to satisfy

  • 12_throw_away 2 days ago

    Memories of years ago on Stack Overflow, when it seemed like every single beginner python question was answered by one specific guy. And all his answers were streams of invective directed at the question's author. Whatever labor this guy was doing, he was clearly getting a lot of value in return by getting to yell at hapless beginners.

    • wizzwizz4 2 days ago

      That doesn't seem like the kind of thing that's ever been allowed on Stack Overflow.

      • wahnfrieden 19 hours ago

        So? It is commonplace there. The comments are even worse.