From the article: "One of the big things that makes Experts Exchange unique is a patented system that requires askers to select their best answer." A great example of how broken the patent system is.
This makes me hate Experts Exchange even more.
Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
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Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#12Jees. Talk about sour grapes... If EE wants to know why they weren't picked for the Q&A site pow-wow while StackExchange and Quora were, they should look no further than themselves. Let's take a look at one of their current top answers:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Virus_and_Spyware/Anti-Virus...
30 day trial?! Subscribe now?! Who do they think they're kidding? Or really: who actually uses this thing? Before the other sites came along, it was merely a nuisance that showed up in your search results, mixed in with something that would actually help. (Interestingly, now the problem is StackExchange content-farms...)
This is exactly the kind of thing that inspired StackOverflow (a fact this post even references!) and it's a key factor in its massive growth and adoption on the part of fed up programmers and sysadmins.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#13I wonder if the author is even aware of the ill will people have towards EE? There are not many sites people clamor to remove from Google listings. You're probably doing something wrong if they are.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#14EE is the only site I would block in my google preferences, a really annoying one...
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#15::SOB SOB:: looks like someone felt left out. Whoa! no VCs? I would just love to see what would happen if they found out I didn't pick them for my kickball team. Looks like Fortune magazine in the end all for what's right in this universe.
Pretending like you took part in the interview. I can only describe it to my self as...Desperation.
Maybe this is whine your-self some more recognition tactic? I've been out of the game since I was 6 years old, I can't be sure.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#16Experts Exchange is borderline spam, to put it mildly. They hide the answer at the very end of an enormous scroll (of course after they try to sell you via a pop-up). A reasonable user has no clue that the answer is on the page. When I have made it all the way down, I have received a quality solution perhaps 5 out of 500 times. Stack Overflow realized there was a quality problem with the existing tech Q&A services an…
I always considered it spam. I wish Google allowed me to globally exclude the domain from my searches. Moreover, given what I could read it didn't look anymore promising or valuable that the various sites that come up, discuss a problem to a dead-end with no resolution (usually posted by a clueless Microsoft "MVP"). No thanks.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#17One of the big things that makes Experts Exchange unique is a patented system that requires askers to select their best answer. Most Q&A sites (StackExchange included) let the community vote for the best answer, when really the person whose opinion matters most is the one who asked the question. StackOverflow allows for both community voting AND for the original asker to indicate which answer was the best answer. I s…
I somehow manage to lose more faith in the patent system every day. I thought it was at zero, but somehow it's lower.
Perhaps I should patent my faith system that allows for negative numbers. Seems reasonable...
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#18Experts Exchange is borderline spam, to put it mildly. They hide the answer at the very end of an enormous scroll (of course after they try to sell you via a pop-up). A reasonable user has no clue that the answer is on the page. When I have made it all the way down, I have received a quality solution perhaps 5 out of 500 times. Stack Overflow realized there was a quality problem with the existing tech Q&A services an…
I always considered it spam. I wish Google allowed me to globally exclude the domain from my searches. Moreover, given what I could read it didn't look anymore promising or valuable that the various sites that come up, discuss a problem to a dead-end with no resolution (usually posted by a clueless Microsoft "MVP"). No thanks.
... I wish Google allowed me to globally exclude the domain from my searches ...
You may have missed the news about this plugin for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbd...
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#19I plan on asking quora what "narky" means
Make sure you use a real fake name. Not a fake fake name.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#20Experts Exchange is borderline spam, to put it mildly. They hide the answer at the very end of an enormous scroll (of course after they try to sell you via a pop-up). A reasonable user has no clue that the answer is on the page. When I have made it all the way down, I have received a quality solution perhaps 5 out of 500 times. Stack Overflow realized there was a quality problem with the existing tech Q&A services an…
I always considered it spam. I wish Google allowed me to globally exclude the domain from my searches. Moreover, given what I could read it didn't look anymore promising or valuable that the various sites that come up, discuss a problem to a dead-end with no resolution (usually posted by a clueless Microsoft "MVP"). No thanks.
You can if you run Chrome. They just released an extension to do just this.
(someone posted this on HN recently)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-...