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I am curious about how many NON-programmers are using these StackExchange sites. Are they attracting new users or just the subset of StackOverflow users that al
by swilliams 16y ago
I am curious about how many NON-programmers are using these StackExchange sites. Are they attracting new users or just the subset of StackOverflow users that also like X (cooking, gaming, etc)?
- farmerbuzz 16y agoThe end goal is probably to get into google results. There may be an advantage against something like Yahoo Answers by having a committed community for a particular topic and drawing experts to that community (haven't seen much expertise on Yahoo Answers beyond what you could find with basic google skills).
- mwsherman 16y agoThe beta (Area 51) idea is that some subset of programmers will be gamers/cooks/photographers. They form the "seed" group, since they know the SO model but also have these less-techie interests. Then we hope that they'll tell two friends, and so on. That's the experiment.