
An oral history of Stack Overflow - told by its founding team
The Stack Overflow Podcast
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Commenting
Comments are meant to be transient. We've decided that all comments, by default, unless they have a certain number of high up votes, are yet automatically removed. So the likelihood that you'll see any like nastiness from five years ago on a page that you land on from gube is now near zero. In some tags, something like ten % the answers were in the comments, just depending on who there was. And eventually i realized them, as we went through the summer of love and all the problems with people not being nice, that the vast majority o it is happening in the commets.We built a whole lot ve chat system, sort of to get you out of
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