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I am a registered expert and contributor and they reward me by locking me out if I do not contribute for a month. I cannot even see my own answers. With competition around I do not think they will be able to hold people hostage for long.
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Atwood talked about exactly this, calling it "digital sharecropping": http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/are-you-a-digital-s... What amazes me about StackOverflow is that Spolky and Atwood figured so much of this out at the start.
I'm not so sure that it's they figured it all out at the start. It's probably more to do with mantra of "Experts Exchange with out the evil" Just figure out what EE did, and then do the exact opposite.
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Atwood talked about exactly this, calling it "digital sharecropping": http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/are-you-a-digital-s... What amazes me about StackOverflow is that Spolky and Atwood figured so much of this out at the start.
I'm not so sure that it's they figured it all out at the start. It's probably more to do with mantra of "Experts Exchange with out the evil" Just figure out what EE did, and then do the exact opposite.
Even if that was the mantra, that's figuring it out from the start.
That wasn't the mantra though; EE was only one of the influences.
Watch Joel's tech talk (www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ) - they really did figure a ton of it out at the start. See Joel's tech talk
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No kidding. If they displayed an answer or two I might have even considered joining up. When EE was prevalent in Google Search results, it would always make me upset when one of the results looked promising and then I realized I had clicked an EE link. StackOverflow and its success should be a lesson to EE.
Just scroll to the bottom. The answers ARE there.
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No kidding. If they displayed an answer or two I might have even considered joining up. When EE was prevalent in Google Search results, it would always make me upset when one of the results looked promising and then I realized I had clicked an EE link. StackOverflow and its success should be a lesson to EE.
Just scroll to the bottom. The answers ARE there.
God I love how Stackoverflow kick those guys buts, and they don't even know their concurrency enough to tell bad things about it, most things they said it's theirs super duper feature is already at Stack.
I'm not sure that's correct. Didn't the person ask the question in the first place because they didn't know the answer? In the case of a technical question, someone might give them an answer which produces the correct output but in a terrible way, the person who asked the question might be tempted to mark this as the best answer and move on.
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No kidding. If they displayed an answer or two I might have even considered joining up. When EE was prevalent in Google Search results, it would always make me upset when one of the results looked promising and then I realized I had clicked an EE link. StackOverflow and its success should be a lesson to EE.
Just scroll to the bottom. The answers ARE there.
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…
We should direct those slimeballs to this thread so they can get a dose of reality. Actually... not this thread... a transcript of this thread. We wouldn't want their kind frequenting HN!