Amusingly, you have to have a paid subscription to be able to comment on their blog. No wonder it doesn't have any comments.
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
#112I 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.
What exactly is keeping you there? Sounds a bit Stockholm syndrome to me.
Well you can say that. I am a system admin in my day job and technology area I work is not really hot area in other places.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#113Whenever I am searching for an internet solution, if I see a result coming from the EE domain I automatically pass over it, so why shouldnt the reporter?
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#114Honestly, I'm just shocked to see that there's a real person behind the site. I don't know why, but whenever I stumbled across an EE answer through Google, it's always seemed like a place full of crystallized ancient knowledge.
My last company hired a guy who claimed to be one of the top engineers at EE. Crystallized ancient knowledge is appropriate. Then again the company I was at is still using classic ASP in production, so even that ancient knowledge can at times be a bit useful. I agree with icco, I've heard bad things from friends in town, never checked it out myself.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just scroll to the bottom. The answers ARE there.
Only when you directly link from Google. If you try to search anything on the site itself? It tries to con you into signing up.
It's easy to find the link via google: search for 'site:experts-exchange.com ""'
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#116I was kinda expecting to get hit by a paywall in order to see that post.
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#117Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure that's how Yahoo! Answers works as well, no?
and stack overflow...
Stack Overflow doesn't "require" it; it's encouraged, and people tend to look down on you if you don't.
(Enforcement via culture instead of by rules.)
Having said that, given the amount of abandoned questions on EE, I don't think their patent is quite working for them.
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#119Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#120It'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…
FWIW, surely EE are in it to make profit. They've probably made a lot of money.
You don't make a user hostile site for the hell of it, or because you hate your users. You make a user hostile site to make money. And my guess is EE makes millions.
StackOverflow don't have to worry about profit.