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This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange [...] In other
by unwind 14y ago
This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange [...]
In other words, this is some content from a different web site, which we're re-publishing here because we can. I don't get it, what would be the idea of this, except for "content is good"? That people who might be interested in questions like this don't read the relevant SE sites, so they "need" Ars to step in and re-publish it? It's weirding me out.
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- andrewcooke 14y agomods - can we change the url to http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/165918/way-in-over-my-head-dealing-with-better-programmers http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/165918/way-in... ?
- joe_the_user 14y agoUh, Stack Exchange gets people to post on there by letting its content out on the creative commons license (or whatever equivalent). IE, the posts don't belong to Stack Exchange any more than they belong to Arstechnica. They are doing what the license was intended to let them do. It is simply a matter of which presentation of the material do we like best.
- ta12121 14y agoI used to value Ars because they had actual writers, editors, and original content. This new trend they have of being another content aggregator is disappointing.
- dantiberian 14y agoI really like Ars highlighting these questions, I would often not have seen them if it wasn't for them republishing the answers. They also highlight questions which are relevant to people in the wider tech community that may not be working developers and expose them to some interesting questions. Ars is hardly becoming an aggregation site, IMO they have always had thoughtful, high quality writing with a balanced perspective. One article a week is not a sign of a change in strategy.
- lurker14 14y agoYeah, why do people read "newspapers" and "encyclopedias" that are full of of rehashed information available as primary sources elsewhere?
- benologist 14y agoThe point is SEO and social sites like ... this.