Five Years of Stackoverflow.com

Post by InclinedPlane » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #28

gus_massa wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of that is by design. It was designed as a questions-answer site, to collect every question of every programming language and provide the correct answer. It was not designed as a forum, where you go to talk with friends. The problem is what to do when all the questions had been answered?

Cynical me thinks "it's time to _monetize!_" How long till it follows expert sexchange.com's model?

One of the GREAT things about stackoverflow has been that they HAVE monetized from day one, and monetized well, without being intrusive to the community or the content.

Post by ygra » Mon, Jun 24, 2013, 5:50 AM UTC

UnfalseDesign wrote: post #27

ape4 wrote: post #3

You need to edit at least a certain number of characters (might be 6). So if you want to correct a = into a == you can't. Well, you can... you have to make a few other bogus changes. This bugs me.

The limitation, though annoying, is there for a few reasons. One being that it discourages users from making quick edits just for the reputation or badge. I have seen many users get more wrapped up in getting a badge than actually using the site as a means to help their fellow users.

Then don't give out badges for behaviour you don't want to encourage ;-)

Or award the badge only for substantial edits while still allowing fixing typos (and sometimes in code a single-character diff can make a huge difference).

Re: Five Years of Stackoverflow.com

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