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"What do YOU think makes this site different from other Q&A sites?" Why, at one time, I was one of the highest ranked volunteer 'experts' on the site, having a
by bmelton 16y ago
"What do YOU think makes this site different from other Q&A sites?"
Why, at one time, I was one of the highest ranked volunteer 'experts' on the site, having amassed the EE equivalent of a zillion karma, or whatever they're called, and then, literally, the first time I go there to ask a question, they're all of a sudden premium? I literally helped build that site's content, and not only got nothing for it, but I have to pay to see the answers that I populated the site with?
- BudVVeezer 16y agoAs the site's very first "featured expert" (even gave me a tshirt), I wholly agree.
- pbiggar 16y agoAtwood talked about exactly this, calling it "digital sharecropping": http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/are-you-a-digital-sharecropper.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/are-you-a-digital-s... What amazes me about StackOverflow is that Spolky and Atwood figured so much of this out at the start.
- docgnome 16y agoI'm not so sure that it's they figured it all out at the start. It's probably more to do with mantra of "Experts Exchange with out the evil" Just figure out what EE did, and then do the exact opposite.
- Helianthus16 16y agothat's overused. "do the exact opposite," that is. superficial understanding without an actual construction.
- pbiggar 16y ago> Just figure out what EE did, and then do the exact opposite. Even if that was the mantra, that's figuring it out from the start. That wasn't the mantra though; EE was only one of the influences. Watch Joel's tech talk (www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ) - they really did figure a ton of it out at the start. See Joel's tech talk