Would you prefer SO to be paid?
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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That would never be an option for Stackoverflow
Well guy complains about compensation for his "work". I assume he's ready to shell out a few dollars for when he'll need it :-)
His "work" as you put it, is the only thing of value on the site. SO without users to provide answers are worth zero dollars, so I'm not sure why you put work in quotation mark.
Because if he's able to help anyone on SO, he very likely profited many, many times from free access to knowledge there before he got to this point. Given activity of average user he probably gained orders of magnitude more than he given.
I find rambling about money and compensation in such context distasteful.
SO provided platform which, while not perfect is used by millions of people. They aren't overloaded with ads and dark patterns as many of the clones. If it's worthless, why people are using it instead self hosted blogs for example?
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Looks like stack overflow privileges
On stackoverflow, even asking questions is a privilege.
You won't get banned for being toxic, but you will if your question isn't a "proper" one.
“comp” seems to refer to compensation.
It makes so much more sense. I thought when hotels say comped they meant make something complimentary/free but compensation makes more sense.
I could see it being used interchangeably tbh
At least you're not rewarded with more ads.
Is this from stack overflow? I never use it.