Timeline for Are we spreading out our programming content too much?
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 11:50 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://blog.stackoverflow.com with https://blog.stackoverflow.com
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackapps.com/ with https://stackapps.com/
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| Mar 1, 2012 at 19:58 | comment | added | jalf | @AdamDavis: well, then he's going off topic, because the question was about programming content, not any content at all. | |
| Mar 1, 2012 at 19:28 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @jalf Go get a good programming answer on Yahoo answers. Or quora. Or any other "general topic" answer site. This is the breakdown Jeff is speaking of - expert sites work better for both the expert and the new user. SO was fine prior to p.se, and if p.se went away so would still be fine. | |
| Mar 1, 2012 at 19:24 | comment | added | jalf | "Proven"? So if it wasn't for Programmers.SE then SO would "break down"? I call BS. | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 12:54 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @rachel it's not so much "opposing point of view" as "what you're proposing has been proven to break down over and over again" The only thing we've seen work, and scale, on the actual world wide web as we know it, is topic specific communities. Y'know, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 15:56 | comment | added | Rachel | I'm not suggesting we get rid of all sites I listed, but I am questioning why we need so many different sites when a typical user is usually able to contribute to quite a few of them. I would personally prefer to see some SE sites to accept a broader range of questions, and have those ranges clearly defined within the parent site using tags. This is just my point of view, and I asked this question question to try and figure out if I was in the minority or not. Your answer is still helpful to me as it helped me see the opposing point of view of stack exchange users. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 15:19 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @Rachel So you believe that the amateurs are currently unhappy with the sharp focus of the sites, and that even if they focus on programming they wouldn't find UI questions "noise"? While I use "expert" as the keystone, I've noticed that amateurs specialize just as much as experts - how do you think experts are made? But if you just want one big mish-mash of everything that might be interesting to every amateur, try yahoo answers or quora. They allow anything and everything. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 13:44 | comment | added | Rachel | I suppose my issue comes from the fact that I don't consider myself an expert. I'm still learning, and the SE sites have helped me learn a lot. I'm willing to accept any answer, not just an expert's answer. Despite not being an expert, I also feel I can still give good answers to questions. There are far more amateurs than experts, and I doubt the experts could keep up without the amateurs, so I feel intelligent amateurs are needed too. I'm a bit disappointed that SE would rather make a small number of experts happy than a larger number of intelligent amateurs, however I can understand that. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 5:11 | comment | added | Pollyanna | Now please take the time to complain about my simplistic use of the words "expert" "professional" and "amateur" and lack of a clear definition of them, as well as lack of acknowledgement that there is a great deal of overlap between them. | |
| S Feb 23, 2012 at 5:09 | history | answered | Pollyanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Feb 23, 2012 at 5:09 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Pollyanna |