I wouldn’t classify myself as much of a contributor on Stack Overflow – I’m more of a lurker, really. I’ve been listening to the podcast since the beginning and have really enjoyed watching the evolution of the site. This week at work, I spent more time on the site than I have in quite some time, and I caught myself skipping over the Accepted Answers on the site and going down the page to read other answers; it seems as though an add has been affixed to the bottom of the Accpted Answer, for some reason, my brain was skipping over the entire answer like the whole thing was an ad.
Screenshot from a Stack Overflow page
I had to go back through the site to find a screen shot; the black “Got Splunk” ad seems to be the worst (at least to my brain) and the Server Fault ad didn’t seem to pose any issue at all. If I take the time to build up some rep, a lot of these ads will go away. However, the usability of Stack Overflow suffers due to these ads.
