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It's impressive to me that when the great minds behind Experts Exchange make their voice known, they talk just like the kind of slimeballs you would expect behi
by danilocampos 16y ago
It's impressive to me that when the great minds behind Experts Exchange make their voice known, they talk just like the kind of slimeballs you would expect behind such an operation.
It's shameless. In their shoes, I'd just sit there quietly, take the snub on the chin, keep plying my spammy trade, and have enough introspection to realize that the reason no one wants to talk to me is because I've created one of the shittiest, most user-hostile content abominations in the history of the entire internet.
I guess the dangerous thing about dirtbags is that they have no idea they're dirtbags. My only comfort in all this is the knowledge that Stack Overflow has delivered us from evil.
- TimothyBurgess 16y agoWe should direct those slimeballs to this thread so they can get a dose of reality. Actually... not this thread... a transcript of this thread. We wouldn't want their kind frequenting HN!
- harold 16y agoI suppose that's where some of the "I found an answer on EE I couldn't find anywhere else" responses come from.
- shrikant 16y agoNo need to suppose - check out the profile and posting history of each of those commenters and form a conclusion. (I'm one of those "I found an answer on EE I couldn't find anywhere else" people, and I stand by it)
- EnderMB 16y agoI had always contemplated the idea of asking questions that already appear on EE on Stack Overflow, simply so that their answers can be expanded upon and eventually overtake EE's results on Google.
- fleitz 16y agoNo kidding. If they displayed an answer or two I might have even considered joining up. When EE was prevalent in Google Search results, it would always make me upset when one of the results looked promising and then I realized I had clicked an EE link. StackOverflow and its success should be a lesson to EE.
- philfreo 16y agoscroll down past all the fake answers, the real answers are shown at the bottom
- alextingle 16y agoJust scroll to the bottom. The answers ARE there.
- quattrofan 16y agoUnfortunately either my scroll wheel breaks or I get RSI in my index finger long before I reach the bottom..
- axod 16y agoFWIW, surely EE are in it to make profit. They've probably made a lot of money. You don't make a user hostile site for the hell of it, or because you hate your users. You make a user hostile site to make money. And my guess is EE makes millions. StackOverflow don't have to worry about profit.