No, "Habr" not dying

No, "Habrahabr" is not dying. It will not kill no drop in attendance, nor the threats of the authorities, or even the division.

The only thing he threatens is we ourselves.

<>We have forgotten how to read.

We can't focus on a few paragraphs of text. We read social media reposts of "Vkontakte" in length, best in kilobytes, and tiny notes in Facebook. We have a global shortage of attention. In this regard, the reading of any article is becoming a torture. Well or at best in mental labor. I always see comments that clearly say that the commentator did not read the article. And there are those comments that are all tone implying that reading the post they did me a favor.

the we believe that We have to.

We are so incredibly different. Someone writes a code, someone sets up equipment, someone draws icons. Yes, even the posts of the two coders each other are hardly interesting. We write posts that are of interest to our tiny group of people. And then we wonder why the voting system was not really appreciated for this very important post for us. Well I do not need the average sysadmin audio effects Adobe Premiere Pro. It plus this post will not see, since such a hub it is not signed. So, does this overall masterpiece for someone to post in the first place. What can I do? Yes, every text is an effort. But force people to read we can't force them.

But the posts on General subjects are perceived well. They are of interest to many. And it is not surprising that a hastily made colomensky post about the crucified copiaste the girl will collect a lot more advantages than an excellent guide on the specifics of the configuration of the web server hosting from a specific hosting provider small. Just the first interesting and useful to many. And the second useful life is not for everyone. It's just voices. Do not think that the community does not appreciate the posts of the second type. Do not think that writing posts of the first type is shameful.

the We all don't love to write.

What to do on "habré"? All that is from the website — it is a form of creation of new posts, posts and comments under them. Writing posts is extremely fascinating process, during which a detailed study of the subject. Then in the comments almost always come from other people, people smarter than the author of the post, which explain that the understanding of the topic was wrong. Meanwhile we perceive the commitment of the one post on the account like undeserved torture. If you do not write the posts, what's there to do? Useless commentators and so lacking. I know because I was a useless commentator, who came to the site by accident.

the We love to whine.

We love to whine that the numbers of counters under the posts small. Meanwhile, we forget that large to anything. Why three hundred reviews, if most of the useless? Better than thirty, but in the case. Why +150 under the post when it was clear that he was fine? Better than +20, but from real people who the post was interesting, but not cheaters. Why should one hundred, two hundred thousand hits? Yes, and how? Doesn't have enough Russian-speaking it specialists who will be interested in a highly specialized guide to deploying PostgreSQL on a Raspberry Pi. So it will be five, ten, twenty thousand, but people who do not. One unit will share their experiences. Clear many topic gets more.

We love to whine that "Habr" killed. Killed someone else. Not us. We monthly we throw tantrums and posts in the style of "why "Habr" dead". Then these carts we break savory screaming that someone did something wrong. Maybe blame the system of karma: look at my zaminusovali. Maybe the case is the greed of the site owners: view on banner advertising and "jeans"! Perhaps, in the General case rolling level posts: view, read this post and candidate does not need!
the We do not want to admit that the case in the us.

And all you need to do is read and write posts and comments. This is the whole point of the community. We just fat and lazy and don't want to do this.

To change — fine. Maybe we grew up, got wives, children and cats. But we are all afraid of change. So we are looking for external causes.

Does the system of karma stopping to write? For accommodation, there is discharge of karma. And do not say that does not work — all perfectly working as you intended. You can recommendit blatant nonsense, to gain the downsides to such an extent that it is possible to write, except that in PM to other users. Then reset and start to write the posts as all the white people. All real. I know because I went through the reset of karma.

Is there anything bad that touches on the simple theme? We're so different. There is nothing wrong with that, someone will write a post about the space program or the ban of another website. They will not get in the way — they were taken to another site.

Does the administration personally bothers to write something? That person Deniskin comes every night to my house and delete my drafts. Lumborum dreams of how to scrub the comments and posts. Moderation is terrible, and all udelyayut? On the contrary, the resource is actually left to chance. On the contrary, the authors encourage the PAP and other buns. You just write, author, write.

Don't all killed by the team of authors and editors, who periodically gives all sorts of pearl? Meanwhile the authors, this was not scored, but simply offered to write to multiple users. Edition is community.

Do business blogs companies? They also need to sign up. I generally difficult to understand such problems of filtering, because the day I passed through hundreds of headlines via RSS. Not interested — don't read, what's the problem? And many of the posts from the blogs of companies is not promotional, but informative. Exactly the same could write normal users.

Is comments so famously minus? I've seen all of these pleas that minus nothing. After that I open the comments of this author and I see the same nonsense: people rightly deducted. I regularly see posts blatant nonsense in the comments. He merges. And then these same people whine that they minus nothing. And the cons are quite right. I know because I wrote crap comments. And the blame for fused karma was just me.

So what to do, people have opinions. If silence is deducted even reasonable references opinion on technical subject — it's a sign of decay. This on "habré" there. Even in the post about "Apple" technique or policy review polite dissent or supluses, or explain what's wrong. Arrogant "here I am, listen to my unfounded opinion" will zaminusovali anywhere. I know because I wrote and saw both comments.

This is a professional community. Then turn on "you". Here to explain and share knowledge.

This technical issues. There is almost always a correct solution, and there is wrong. Here minus and plus right a wrong. Yes, there are questions that have many correct answers. But this is not enough, a reasoned opinion is not drained.

It's something out of psychology, I guess. Something about the fundamental attribution error and locus of control. Blame not me, but someone else. The site is bad. Well, did I something wrong.

Meanwhile, it would be possible to learn normal behavior in polite society. Where asking for more not to come here, put a minus. Just minus. On some website. Well, so what?

And it doesn't matter. Does it still reset and not enough on what influences. But you can watch and adjust their behavior to in real life, not behind the monitor to behave appropriately. Only need to change the tone of the communication.
Of course, what I described doesn't always work. Someone minus undeserved. Someone flew just like that. Someone right in his criticism.

"Habra" as site a million problems. For example, for myself I had to have a rule to comment only if necessary when I have something to add. How to solve this and other problems, nobody knows. But the whole system of karma works. She just is an implementation of self-regulation community. The self-regulation, thanks to which you can immediately, without pre-moderation to post again. The appearance of the site determined that we are a community website.

You can learn to clearly Express their thoughts. You can receive comments to articles or to write them. You can learn good behavior. You can just read.

the But we don't want to do this.

"Habr" was neither better nor worse. He is still the same despite the redesign. Trivia site the other began. But first of all we have changed. Perhaps we are too good for this site. Perhaps we have nothing to write about. And if there is what, the theme is not so exciting.

It's only our participation in the community. The thing ourselves. We have become lazy. Or just grew. And we want to make it as before when everything was different. But otherwise, in our lives, not "habré".

Article based on information from habrahabr.ru