How Stack Overflow's Moderation System Led to Its Own Downfall

How Stack Overflow's moderation system led to its own downfall

Matthew Tyson's iarticle on InfoWorld, "AI didn't kill Stack Overflow," is a post-mortem on what really happened to the once-thriving software developer Q&A community. While generative AI delivered a blow…

How Stack Overflow's Reputation System Led To Its Own Downfall

A new analysis argues that Stack Overflow's decline began years before AI tools delivered the "final blow" to the once-dominant programming forum. The site's monthly questions dropped from a peak of 200,000 to a steep collapse that began in earnest after ChatGPT's 2023 launch, but usage had been declining since 2014, according to data cited in the InfoWorld analysis. The platform's remarkable reputation system initially elevated it above competi…