- cross-posted to:
- tech@kbin.social
- technews@radiation.party
- cross-posted to:
- tech@kbin.social
- technews@radiation.party
Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive.
The charts below show the usage represented by a moving average of 49 days.
What happened?
Sadly, it really is necessary if one wants to be sure nobody actually takes the sarcasm seriously. It’s hard for people to tell in a textual medium.
Heck, my style of humor in RL is often sarcasm or deliberately ludicrous comments and people still sometimes go “wait, really?” Even though they know me well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
I’m going to go without it from now on. I can handle clarifying myself if it’s absolutely necessary for someone.
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Or you know, have a legitimatly very hard time distinguishing it for actual reasons.
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Damn bro you’re right, I’ll just stop being autistic. I’m cured!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_punctuation
(This is a lesson in history, so I’ll let the discerning reader to decide for themselves whether there is sarcasm contained in it)