Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by getsat » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 8:57 PM UTC

codyrobbins wrote: post #118

georgieporgie wrote: post #116

I got tired of the thankless task of doing other peoples' work, along with the overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. In particular, I recall going so far as to read vendor-specific documentation for someone, and providing example code to parse the binary data in question. It was probably an hour of my work and I didn't even get a 'thank you', much less any reputation bum…

I actually don’t use Stack Overflow as a contributor for precisely the same reason: I created my account with an OpenID, the provider is no longer around, and now I can’t log in nor fix it.

This poll is missing an option: I don't use SO because it required OpenID to register.

I guess it supports other options now, but back in the day, that's why I never participated.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by veyron » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 9:04 PM UTC

Banned for a week because someone complained to the admins because I made a comment that "Windows is not necessarily the best operating system". Gave up soon after.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by maeon3 » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 9:08 PM UTC

Hacker news should bump up comments of users who have a high stackoverflow karma.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by m_myers » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 9:11 PM UTC

doug1001 wrote: post #117

Here's what i find annoying. There are so many StackExchange sites now. I have been participating in SO for about 2 years (15K). One tag i like to watch/answer is "machine-learning." ML questions are now spread across so many SE sites: Cross-Validated (Stats), Machine Learning , Computer Science , Computational Science", Numerical Modeling & Simulation --and more on the way, Information Retrieval , Bioinformatics , C…

It is possible to set up a cross-site question filter on stackexchange.com (http://stackexchange.com/filters). As far as I can tell, it only allows filtering by tags, not full text, so your mileage may vary.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by yahelc » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 9:11 PM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #14

I participate a lot , but almost exclusively in the (HTML5) Canvas tag. Because I don't answer much else I've got a smallish reputation for a frequent visitor(12K). I'm the top answer-er for the Canvas tag, having answered around ~10% of all questions ever asked about Canvas on StackOverflow. I would say that reputation numbers don't necessarily measure engagement per se in S.O. very well. I've found that if I answer…

I take a similar approach with answering Google Analytics (implementation) questions, having answered ~10% of the tag's questions all time.

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/google-analytics/topusers

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by eblackburn » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 9:19 PM UTC

I seem to be acquiring points from both spurious and cheeky comments made years ago and answers, that haven't been expected. I thank those that participate, but I don't have the inclination to dedicate myself to the cause.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by bozho » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 9:23 PM UTC

100k+ (159 to be precise). I've been very active for 2 years, but lately I have a little less time.

A couple of months ago I shared my SO experience in this post http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=658

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by sneakyness » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 9:39 PM UTC

I'd like to see a giant survey that cross references favorite languages vs favored zones of activity in stack overflow vs total reputation vs number of stack overflow badges.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by ntmartin » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 9:41 PM UTC

timpost wrote: post #23

cmer wrote: post #4

I'm somewhere near 7. I find Stack Overflow extremely frustrating to use since I never seem to have enough reputation to do anything. If I remember correctly I can't even comment I gave up trying to contribute and I now only leech. I wish they'd fix it because more than once I had insightful things to say but it wasn't worth the hassle.

Check out the 'featured' tab and see if you can answer something. Easy way to unlock commenting, and several other privileges. Or just post a few good answers, you'll be able to comment the next day.

Good advice. This is usually something I try to do, but invariably some context switch happens and...hey cows!

It is nice to give back if possible though.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by Piskvorrr » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 9:59 PM UTC

aidenn0 wrote: post #88

Piskvorrr wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not always - see e.g. this (shameless self-plug): http://stackoverflow.com/a/3905805/19746 . I don't think there is a solution - popular stuff will be popular. Is a solution needed, though? The point is to get answers - votes from answers are the incentive, but in the end, it's just a bunch of numbers. As long as the results are obvious - e.g. a question with answers having 75%, 15%, 10% and 5% of votes - it's not te…

I think that one gets so many upvotes because people who know how hard it is to send a lot of e-mail love to point that answer to people who don't (e.g. bosses, clients) making it very useful to a lot of people.

Exactly! My point wasn't to get a ridiculous number of votes on it. My point in writing this was to be useful - even for me - as a "go-to" answer for the question that gets asked all the time (I did start out short-ish, and expanded it over time).

It's an outlier for sure; I think 99.9% of all posts never get beyond 50 votes, and most don't get over 10 - mind you, most of my posts have fewer than 2 votes. With popular topics, you get more votes simply because there are more people looking at your question; does that make this one so great because it has 700+ votes? I'd say it says that sending e-mails is a popular topic, first and foremost - and apparently the question is also somewhat useful. And then the snowball effect kicks in, and the post gets more popular because it's so popular.

Anyway, a +5 in a niche (such as this answer which someone gave to me on a rather narrow problem: http://stackoverflow.com/a/413836/19746 ), to me, carries more weight than +500 in a topic with which everyone is somewhat familiar.