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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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[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

???

[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Looks like stack overflow privileges

[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

“comp” seems to refer to compensation.

[-] colorado@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

It makes so much more sense. I thought when hotels say comped they meant make something complimentary/free but compensation makes more sense.

[-] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I could see it being used interchangeably tbh

[-] DzikiMarian@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago

Would you prefer SO to be paid?

[-] UlrikHD@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

That would never be an option for Stackoverflow

[-] DzikiMarian@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

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 5 points 1 year ago

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?