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One 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…
One 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...
Then I read your last 2 sentences. Too weird! Also goes to show, again, what a joke the patent system is. Multiple people can "independently" come up with the same "innovation", given reasonably similar skills and context.
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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.
(had to get that out of my system. feel better now.)
It's impressive to me that when the great minds behind Experts Exchange make their voice known, they talk just like the kind of slimeballs you would expect behind such an operation. It's shameless. In their shoes, I'd just sit there quietly, take the snub on the chin, keep plying my spammy trade, and have enough introspection to realize that the reason no one wants to talk to me is because I've created one of the shi…
"What do YOU think makes this site different from other Q&A sites?" Why, at one time, I was one of the highest ranked volunteer 'experts' on the site, having amassed the EE equivalent of a zillion karma, or whatever they're called, and then, literally, the first time I go there to ask a question, they're all of a sudden premium? I literally helped build that site's content, and not only got nothing for it, but I have…
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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...
how's this for a meta-ironic comment: when I read your first 2 sentences, I immediately thought of a joke that I was going to make along the lines of, "sorry I have a patent on systems allowing you to submit a negative amount of faith in something, pay up or shutup!" Then I read your last 2 sentences. Too weird! Also goes to show, again, what a joke the patent system is. Multiple people can "independently" come up wi…
EE held me hostage for so many years, working as a young independent contractor in a small town with far fewer tech resources to draw upon... there's just no sympathy for their particular kind of slimeball tactics.
I remember that they even experimented with cutting off answers right before the end, not to mention saying that they had an answer when it fact they didn't. There was certainly no way to get your money back.
Thanks Google, Hacker News, GitHub, Quora, Ruby on Rails and even Facebook for making my life so much better in less than a decade.