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You might already know this, but I believe the answer is always on the landing page. You just have to scroll all the way down. They put enough crap on the top

by enomar 17y ago

You might already know this, but I believe the answer is always on the landing page. You just have to scroll all the way down. They put enough crap on the top of the page to make you think you have to login. The site is still lame though ;)

SwellJoe 17y ago
That must be new (like in the past couple of years). I've been trained out of considering it worth scrolling down. I usually click the back button before the page even finishes loading...it's pretty much instant. I look up to the URL bar, realize where it's taking me, I say something nasty and curse their mothers, and click the back button. The whole process takes about a second. Now that you mention it, I seem to recall reading about Google cracking down on that kind of thing, and sites like Experts Exchange changing in order to keep their ranking. So, Google may forgive them, but my hatred diminishes more slowly. In other words, "may they rot in hell, or at least decline in popularity until they can't even pay the bills for their servers".
- aquateen 17y ago
  I had to work w/ ASP.NET from 04-07, and ended up on EE once in a while. I can't complain; never had to pay for an answer, and usually found one more often than other sites. This crowd should know how to ignore ads or view the google cache anyway.
  - breck 17y ago
    I can't complain either. Scrolling down is slightly annoying, but the answers on EE are as a rule, much better than other google results. Stackoverflow is popping up with great results now too. Can't we be happy to have both and not bash one or the other?
    - ojilles 17y ago
      You can, but you won't due to network effects involved.
    - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
      I used to be a heavy EE user about 5 years ago (IIRC) enough so that I got a free premium membership for a month. Thing is now i can't even read the answers I gave to some questions as I'm not a premium member ... unless I UA-switch to Googlebot of course (that worked last time I was there). EE always frustrated me, like Launchpad Answers does now, in that people with no clue how to solve the problem would answer and then no-one else would bother because someone already answered (Launchpad is far worse for this as any reply (except "more info needed) marks the question as "answered"). /rant
- 83457 17y ago
  If I recall correctly, essentially they used to hide or cover their content using css. In Firefox with the Web Developer Toolbar I would just hit Ctrl+Shift+S to disable styles to read the content. Now you can just scroll-down.
soult 17y ago
This seems to only work when coming directly from Google to ExpertSexChange.

by enomar 17y ago

SwellJoe 17y ago

That must be new (like in the past couple of years). I've been trained out of considering it worth scrolling down. I usually click the back button before the page even finishes loading...it's pretty much instant. I look up to the URL bar, realize where it's taking me, I say something nasty and curse their mothers, and click the back button. The whole process takes about a second. Now that you mention it, I seem to recall reading about Google cracking down on that kind of thing, and sites like Experts Exchange changing in order to keep their ranking. So, Google may forgive them, but my hatred diminishes more slowly. In other words, "may they rot in hell, or at least decline in popularity until they can't even pay the bills for their servers".

aquateen 17y ago
I had to work w/ ASP.NET from 04-07, and ended up on EE once in a while. I can't complain; never had to pay for an answer, and usually found one more often than other sites. This crowd should know how to ignore ads or view the google cache anyway.
- breck 17y ago
  I can't complain either. Scrolling down is slightly annoying, but the answers on EE are as a rule, much better than other google results. Stackoverflow is popping up with great results now too. Can't we be happy to have both and not bash one or the other?
  - ojilles 17y ago
    You can, but you won't due to network effects involved.
  - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
    I used to be a heavy EE user about 5 years ago (IIRC) enough so that I got a free premium membership for a month. Thing is now i can't even read the answers I gave to some questions as I'm not a premium member ... unless I UA-switch to Googlebot of course (that worked last time I was there). EE always frustrated me, like Launchpad Answers does now, in that people with no clue how to solve the problem would answer and then no-one else would bother because someone already answered (Launchpad is far worse for this as any reply (except "more info needed) marks the question as "answered"). /rant
83457 17y ago
If I recall correctly, essentially they used to hide or cover their content using css. In Firefox with the Web Developer Toolbar I would just hit Ctrl+Shift+S to disable styles to read the content. Now you can just scroll-down.

soult 17y ago

This seems to only work when coming directly from Google to ExpertSexChange.