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Well, if such a "tiny" reduction in workforce (certainly less than 12% or 60%) has led to such a traffic decrease on StackOverflow, I guess the layoffs have targeted those who significantly use SO for their day-to-day work.

Thus, if you don't want to get laid off in the next round, stop using StackOverflow ;)

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What if the 12% were answering questions - not asking o.O. Hell, I'd rather a person go through the effort/thought process of asking a _good_ question to get closer to the answer they might be looking for.

I imagine majority of the SO visitors are neither asking nor answering questions, but only looking up answers for questions somebody else posted.

I can, however, come up with scenarious where company would choose either cohort for layoffs (so you are helping engineers from other companies on company dime?).

Still, I was completely tongue in cheek regarding causation and mostly noting that it is unlikely to be any correlation there.

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