Possibly the first time I've gone to an EE page and didn't have to scroll down several pages to see content.
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
#32One 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...
I store faiths in ints so they roll over to positive and I feel better for a while.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#33Go back to spamming Google and stop complaining
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#34Jees. 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 o…
And of course, if you change the Referer header to http://www.google.com/, you get a different page with the solution at the bottom.
I find myself wondering though - why don't they get punished more for feeding different content to the GoogleBot vs what the normal viewer sees? Isn't it basically cloaking - even though clicking on the link in Google search results will still serve up the solution, a normal, organic link wouldn't?
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-googl...
"Cloaking: Serving different content to users than to Googlebot. This is a violation of our webmaster guidelines. If the file that Googlebot sees is not identical to the file that a typical user sees, then you're in a high-risk category. A program such as md5sum or diff can compute a hash to verify that two different files are identical."
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#35EE is the only site I would block in my google preferences, a really annoying one...
That was the first site I blocked. I've been wishing for Google Blocklist every time "experts-exchange" came up in a Google search.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#36EE is the only site I would block in my google preferences, a really annoying one...
It was the first site blocked in our office yesterday when we installed the chrome extension!
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#37> At Experts Exchange, we know who we are.
Oh no they don't. Judging by their attitude these people are in complete denial as to how they are perceived by others.
> Experts Exchange Experts are unpaid volunteers who give of their time to answer questions on the site.
Right. So if they are unpaid volunteers wouldn't they rather help the community and provide the same answers at stackoverflow?
If I volunteer to serve soup on Saturday in a soup kitchen to the homeless, why in the world would I want to have some third company take my soup and sell it to the same homeless people and keep the profit.
And then of course, why would they name their site something that sound exactly like "expert sex change"? Wasn't their domain listed as r-rated in some porn filtering software a while back.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#38As a student, StackOverflow was one of the best thing on the internet. I would be willing to even pay for its content.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#39I resisted clicking the link because I thought I would have to sign up for an account.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#40One 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…
> when really the person whose opinion matters most is the one who asked the question.
Additionally, I find this point to hardly be the case. I love that on SO you can look below the answer to see another one with ten times as many votes and I know that's the better answer.