Stack Overflow Isn't Very Welcoming. It's Time for That to Change. buff.ly/2HvS0Bj

@StackOverflow Good acknoledgment. I suggest, for example, if somebody post a question on a wrong topic, lets say, for example in stackoverflow, but the question would better in superuser, the moderator/community should just move the question to there, not close, nor downvote it.

@StackOverflow @JonHMChan I've been coding for 8 years and just a couple months ago finally asked my first question on Stack Overflow. It immediately got downvoted twice and I'm still not sure why. An emphasis on attempting to answer first time questions would go a long way.

@StackOverflow I can say that I'm one of the "supposedly active users" of SO who decided to just shut up and don't participate anymore because I felt intimidated when I tried to help another newbie like me and ended up getting bullied by your active users.

@StackOverflow @jongalloway I hope this is successful. I quit SO in 2015. I was tired of down votes because of bias or status. +There were other incidents that finally broke me. Best wishes, I hope the change is a positive one.

@StackOverflow Coincidence :)

@StackOverflow You might find some empirical evidence here: blog.ieeesoftware.org/2017/11/can-we… For more details look at the full paper arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pape…

@StackOverflow I've always lurked and used the answers (helps to search 'from last year' , especially with Swift). The described cultural shift from “don’t be an asshole” to “be welcoming” is a good step in the right direction, for #GirlsinICT and anyone else with genuine curiosity.

@StackOverflow I know the feeling... meta.stackexchange.com/q/242490/274106

@StackOverflow @sqL_handLe I said it long ago. The basic mechanism of "you can't do anything here until you prove yourself" is off-putting.

@StackOverflow This is where anthropology comes in handy. 😊 The first step is acknowledgement. I welcome the shift

@StackOverflow I'll just leave this here - meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3666… #thanks #stackoverflow

@StackOverflow @danielfe Thanks for post. Analyzing any issue requires data, so I just have a basic question or two. Did exclusion come from specific categories? What percentage of the active user base has felt excluded? Can you show us examples where people were excluded based on their race or gender?

@StackOverflow @MichaelAntry I used to be an active SO member. Not anymore. Whenever I tried to help newcomers I got downvoted and/or lots of negative comments. So what if they "ask questions wrong"? What does it even mean? There are people willing to help them so why discourage or even ban them?

@StackOverflow Didn't high performers had to just put more effort into problem solving before SO came around? Not questioning the intent here, seems well intended. But doesn't it play a big role in your character building as a programmer?

@StackOverflow Pointless virtue signalling for a non-existent issue.

@StackOverflow The hostility I've experienced is from admins not liking my question & closing it w/o pointing me to the duplicate, or stating my question is too vague (yet people agreed &others answered it before it was shut down). Perhaps the customer is right & the product needs improvement

@StackOverflow SO is really an awesome place! All the content is intuitively and graphically well presented. I posted around 20 questions there and hardly got negative feedback. In my opinion it can stay as is :)

@StackOverflow Haha almost every comment here defending SO is the complete reason why SO sucks.

@StackOverflow Understatement.

@StackOverflow Everything was okay until you brought pseudo scientific implicit bias tests. This is big enough for me to stop using stack overflow on the spot.

@StackOverflow In agree it is not very welcoming. On @StackExchange for travel my post was immediately correct from British English to American English. I stated in my post that I am a British Citizen.

@StackOverflow Very relevant: medium.com/compassionate-…

@StackOverflow how do you understand from a newbie question that it was made by person of colour?

@StackOverflow I’m glad it’s being acknowledged but this has been going on for some 10 years. I gave up after my 2nd attempt to help people.

@StackOverflow Sad. Sad. Sad. Political correctness claims another victim. Common sense much?

@StackOverflow It stoped being welcoming when “subjective” questions were removed. Removing preomammer jokes was the worst mistake!

@StackOverflow Just few days ago I had the idea about creating a website/community where people rejected from StackOverflow will get all the help they need. Now it seems my idea is obsolete :( Thank you SO for preventing me lose precious time to do something that I am not really capable of :D

@StackOverflow .@JayHanlon is delusional. The "problem" *is* the community. Some of the most intelligent and generous contributors are also elitist jerks. You have to grow some callouses. It's just as true in a knowledge-based economy as it ever was in a labor-based economy.

@StackOverflow @JayHanlon In your blog article it states: "This post focuses on Stack Overflow, but most of it applies to the broader Stack Exchange network as well." ... Definitely needed across SE, case in point: math.stackexchange.com/questions/2746…

@StackOverflow Well, I don’t know about others, but in my case, spent a week researching to solve smth, couldnt. Spent some while preparing a question. never answered. Why? I still dont know. I havent changed the way I’d ask. Smth’s wrong, thats for sure.

@StackOverflow nah, stop using it long time ago. there are better and friendlier community elsewhere.

@StackOverflow Too many demigods on SO aided but the site rules. What kind of place is saying "please" and "thank you" to be looked upon poorly? If that doesn’t illustrate the problem to you then perhaps nothing would.