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Wow, what a comp for doing free consulting work ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by danhab99@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] DzikiMarian@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you prefer SO to be paid?

[–] UlrikHD@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would never be an option for Stackoverflow

[–] DzikiMarian@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 :-)

[–] UlrikHD@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DzikiMarian@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?