I'm interested in people's ideas about this statement:
Being welcoming is not mutually exclusive to question quality.
I first saw a variation of it in a comment from the CEO.
Respectfully, we do not believe that welcoming, teaching, and empowering new generations of beginners is mutually exclusive with building a quality archive.
And then, the more concise but broader version in the first quote above from Aaron Hall's post earlier today.
Based on discussions I've read since the welcoming push began, it seems to me that some people disagree with that, but I may be misunderstanding them. Often when people voice their concerns about efforts to be more welcoming, they are stated in terms of the impact of those efforts on question quality.
But do people fundamentally disagree with the entire concept that quality programming Q&A can successfully exist within a more welcoming environment, or do they just disagree with the way the company has been trying to achieve that? I'd like to learn more about the reasoning behind people's various positions on this.
