Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

#1

Post by jader201 » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 2:46 PM UTC

I know that a lot of Hackers frequent Stack Overflow, so I am curious as to how much actual participation there is from Hackers on SO, and what the general reputation of Hackers is.

I think it would be particularly interesting to cross reference these results with the "What's Your Favorite Programming Language?" [1] poll. Unfortunately, that would require way too many options. :)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692

Note: please don't forget to vote the poll itself up if you find it valuable/interesting, in order to gather other participation.

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

#2

Post by z_ » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:04 PM UTC

Banned for being too awesome.

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#3

Post by kgutteridge » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:06 PM UTC

just under 2k here which I have always considered average

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#4

Post by cmer » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:07 PM UTC

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.

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

#5

Post by jimminy » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:07 PM UTC

1 - But I only use it as a resource and don't participate.

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#6

Post by gfosco » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:11 PM UTC

Hovering at around 12.5k for a while now... SO is fun. I've only asked 2 questions, answered 592. http://stackoverflow.com/users/353988/fosco

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#7

Post by timpost » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:17 PM UTC

My reputation slowed down to a crawl after becoming a moderator.

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

#8

Post by Osiris » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:19 PM UTC

When SO first came out I was on it quite a bit but as the community grew larger, I found that I rarely added much value to answering questions beyond what other users were already doing. Now I use it as a great reference tool, like searching how to fix weird IE7 issues (yes, my company still officially supports IE7). For that, it's been a great tool.

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

#9

Post by jamiecurle » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:19 PM UTC

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.

I agree, often I've wanted to add something, but I'm unable to because I haven't participated enough.

I'm on the wrong side of the chicken and egg, so I just leech.

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

#10

Post by randomdata » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:22 PM UTC

StackOverflow is one site where I never saw the appeal. I have stumbled upon it a few times through it being a top result during search, but the content seemed fairly flat, for lack of a better term.

I suppose if you have a very specific question, it gets the job done. However, in the more traditional forum model, I find the discussion that follows the answer to be far more valuable the answer itself. The StackOverflow implementation seems to discourage continuing the conversations once suitable answers are found.

It obviously works well for a lot of people, but I just don't get it. Voted do not use.