> Stack Overflow's usefulness applies mostly for novices I can understand this belief in that the most prominent content on the site is that which gets the mos

> Stack Overflow's usefulness applies mostly for novices I can understand this belief in that the most prominent content on the site is that which gets the most upvotes, and by statistical necessity the number of novices voting must be greater than the number of experts voting. But when you get into the niche topics or tags, that's when the expertise really comes through. Try browsing the [scala] or [haskell] tags, they may not have a giant community, but the general level of both questions and answers hardly fits your generalization of "novice". If we were just talking about the "hot questions" of the month (http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month) I could understand why it would seem the site is mostly useful for novices, but there is definitely a place for expertise in the community as well.