A better recruiting tactic would be to find someone who answered so much as one question, then examine the quality of their answer. Suppose someone posted Ferm

A better recruiting tactic would be to find someone who answered so much as one question, then examine the quality of their answer. Suppose someone posted Fermat's Last Conjecture to Stackoverflow, in hopes of getting advice as to how to prove it. Were someone to produce that proof, they would be demonstrating their superiority to three hundred years of the world's very finest mathematicians. But yes, my experience is completely correct - to the extent someone looks for stuff like stackoverflow at all, all they want to know is that I've answered something, even if my answer was stupid. My pet peeve is that online application forms commonly as for my "github". How about my sourceforge? How about the repository that I host myself? I expect that most of those who request my github don't really know the difference between a github and a hubcap.