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Why that move? Is it a bit like professional poker players who then move on the stock market "because that's where the real big money is"? There's a finite am

Why that move? Is it a bit like professional poker players who then move on the stock market "because that's where the real big money is"? There's a finite amount of programmers needing (sometimes great) answers to dumb question and hence nearly all the other StackExchange sites tanked... Meanwhile the big forums have daily numbers of message posted that dwarf SO so much that you'd need logarithmic scale to even see SO on the graph? So it's trying to play where the people are really hanging out? Glad to see that they heard all the criticism and realized that you couldn't go very far with a strict "no discussion" policy. Every single interesting thing ever written can be followed by a healthy discussion. Glad they figured that out.

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> There's a finite amount of programmers needing (sometimes great) answers to dumb question and hence nearly all the other StackExchange sites tanked... I don't see this as the reason the other sites tanked at all; there are a limited number of fields where someone without much knowledge can verify whether or not they got a correct answer. Shell scripting? Hell yeah. Statistics? Not really. (I used the stats stack exchange for a little while and it immediately became clear that most of the questioners had absolutely no ability to figure out if an answer was correct, since you can't just type it on the command line and see if it worked). I don't know how much a discussion forum changes that problem.