Make the Right / Positive Things Easier to Do than Wrong / Negative Things

1 · Yihui Xie · May 2, 2018, midnight
Last week I saw a fantastic post written by Jay Hanlon from Stack Overflow titled “Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change”. I wanted to stand up in front of my computer and applaud for five minutes after reading this post. It is great that Stack Overflow was admitting the problem publicly and showing the intention to fix it. First of all, I should make it clear that I do love Stack Overflow, use it almost every day, and truly appreciate its value, despite of my previou...