Dear StackExchange: Thank You
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Dear StackExchange: Thank You
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Re: Dear StackExchange: Thank You
#2Yes, thank you.
SO opened up programming to the masses by treating knowledge as something to be shared and not something to be hidden.
Again, thank you.
Re: Dear StackExchange: Thank You
#3They are the best programming and general technology questions and answers anywhere by far. Discussions are not tolerated, nor are open-ended questions, but if you need to know the most efficient way to do X in language Y, then look no farther than stackoverflow.
Re: Dear StackExchange: Thank You
#4> 41 different SE sites
Wow, didn't know that there are so many different SE sites, thought there's just one.
Anyway SE, its Q&A system and the community are just incredible.
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#5> 41 different SE sites Wow, didn't know that there are so many different SE sites, thought there's just one. Anyway SE, its Q&A system and the community are just incredible.
There's a complete list on http://stackexchange.com/sites; there are actually way more than 41 sites in the SE network.
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#6I can definitely relate with the feeling described. I too got the "prize" from Unix&Linux.SE. The hand signed letter by Spolsky definitely had a strong effect. I felt proud like a child receiving a gold star in kindergarden.
A piece of advice for all the startup/business founders here on HN. When you send personalized communication to your users, be it a personal email, or something as superficial as putting your handwritten signature on a bunch of papers, you make us very happy.
As a frequent user of the general WWW, I could not recommend enough you do this.
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#7I received a similar package from my participation in the English Language and Usage site (I was a temporary moderator there while the site was in beta). The letter that came with it had several intentional mistakes noted with copy-editing marks, which I thought was a nice touch.
The T-shirt, however, un-intentionally misspelled the site's name (see http://meta.english.stackexchange.com/q/1926); they sent out another batch of shirts several weeks later, so I now have both a good shirt and a special limited-edition shirt.
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#8> 41 different SE sites Wow, didn't know that there are so many different SE sites, thought there's just one. Anyway SE, its Q&A system and the community are just incredible.
There's a complete list on http://stackexchange.com/sites ; there are actually way more than 41 sites in the SE network.
So is SE the better Quora?
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#9No thanks from me. The no discussions rule means the only questions on the site are the trivial questions that could be answered by reading some documentation. If questions are broad or open ended, the value lies in the discussion, not in any particular answer. I also found that many accepted answers are blatantly wrong, or encourage very poor practice. Sure, the StackExchange network is better than experts-exchange or quora, in the sense that's a much better implementation of a concept, but I believe there's just very little value in that concept.
Re: Dear StackExchange: Thank You
#10No thanks from me. The no discussions rule means the only questions on the site are the trivial questions that could be answered by reading some documentation. If questions are broad or open ended, the value lies in the discussion, not in any particular answer. I also found that many accepted answers are blatantly wrong, or encourage very poor practice. Sure, the StackExchange network is better than experts-exchange…
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