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I see a lot of parallels between what you're doing and StackOverflow. In the formative years of StackOverflow, Joel and Jeff took huge pains to structure the s

I see a lot of parallels between what you're doing and StackOverflow. In the formative years of StackOverflow, Joel and Jeff took huge pains to structure the service in such a way that there wasn't a time/money equivalency to participating. Mostly this took the form of outward public recognition (scores, badges, etc.) and incentives aligned around that. If there's a path forward for Bugrex I think it's probably along those lines.

jldugger 11y ago
> In the formative years of StackOverflow, Joel and Jeff took huge pains to structure the service in such a way that there wasn't a time/money equivalency to participating. There always is, they just choose to pay in terms of company scrip. And they can -- and have -- arbitrarily remove karma from the system. It's great for them, because they convert user time into dollars for StackOverflow.
mrborgen 11y ago
Thanks, we're hoping to do something in the same lines. However, it's more tricky when it's a chat, as the answer isn't as easy to present to the whole community and gain more karma from. Any thoughts on that?
- grey-area 11y ago
  If you look at stack overflow you'll see that many answers have a bit of back and forth before the answers are found to elucidate the problem or scope. I think the chat format would be great (and sets you apart) as long as you had some kind of soft rule that to accept an answer someone has to write a summary too. The parent is right, your value is in the questions already answered, and this would also avoid mentors getting bored of the same question. Another potential thing to set you apart is to somehow find a better moderation system than SO.
subpixel 11y ago
On the subject of SO: I think it's worth considering how (incredibly!) valuable the public record of questions and answers is. Many, many times I don't have to ask a question b/c I can find a comparable one that has already been answered. I really dislike how Slack is starting to dominate in the Q&A space for specific projects/libraries, b/c it does the entire dev community a disservice to hide knowledge into a myriad of little silos that Google doesn't index. Long way of saying it would be awesome if BugRex had a searchable/spiderable archive.
- mrborgen 11y ago
  We are very much considering opening up the chat logs!
  - popmystack 11y ago
    Or everyone could just use IRC. Seems like a waste of man-hours and talent to recreate something we've had for decades.

jldugger 11y ago

> In the formative years of StackOverflow, Joel and Jeff took huge pains to structure the service in such a way that there wasn't a time/money equivalency to participating. There always is, they just choose to pay in terms of company scrip. And they can -- and have -- arbitrarily remove karma from the system. It's great for them, because they convert user time into dollars for StackOverflow.

mrborgen 11y ago

Thanks, we're hoping to do something in the same lines. However, it's more tricky when it's a chat, as the answer isn't as easy to present to the whole community and gain more karma from. Any thoughts on that?

grey-area 11y ago
If you look at stack overflow you'll see that many answers have a bit of back and forth before the answers are found to elucidate the problem or scope. I think the chat format would be great (and sets you apart) as long as you had some kind of soft rule that to accept an answer someone has to write a summary too. The parent is right, your value is in the questions already answered, and this would also avoid mentors getting bored of the same question. Another potential thing to set you apart is to somehow find a better moderation system than SO.

subpixel 11y ago

On the subject of SO: I think it's worth considering how (incredibly!) valuable the public record of questions and answers is. Many, many times I don't have to ask a question b/c I can find a comparable one that has already been answered. I really dislike how Slack is starting to dominate in the Q&A space for specific projects/libraries, b/c it does the entire dev community a disservice to hide knowledge into a myriad of little silos that Google doesn't index. Long way of saying it would be awesome if BugRex had a searchable/spiderable archive.

mrborgen 11y ago
We are very much considering opening up the chat logs!
- popmystack 11y ago
  Or everyone could just use IRC. Seems like a waste of man-hours and talent to recreate something we've had for decades.