Timeline for What Experts-Exchange thinks of Stack Overflow
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 26, 2011 at 12:29 | history | edited | Bill the Lizard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2011 at 12:15 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | @mplungjan: I think what you're describing is the exception, not the rule. I'm a moderator on SO, so believe me I've seen the worst. :) But I also know that there are lots of people who make thousands of edits to improve questions so they don't get hammered by the less enlightened minority. I do agree with you though, there's plenty of room on the internet for both EE and SE, and neither site is perfect. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 11:42 | comment | added | mplungjan | @Bill: Then you have been lucky. My negative experiences with closed and down-voted questions across the SE network stems from personal experience and by direct observation of non-native English questions being hammered into the ground when they with a little effort from people with a better grasp of English could be made into acceptable questions. Call it "tough love" or whatever. It felt extremely rude at the time. Such rudeness as I have seen more than once would earn a suspension at EE. Do NOT get me wrong. I LIKE SO very much. Just some things are not optimal (ditto at EE) IMO | |
| May 26, 2011 at 11:21 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | @mplungjan: I don't really see any difference between EE and SO with regards to slightly off topic questions. "server related site of the day"? It's always been Server Fault. "wacked very hard over your fingers"? I have no idea what this means. We vote to migrate to SF, which sounds exactly like "some friendly soul will re-tag and re-zone it for you and that is it" to me. Also, rep doesn't really matter when you're asking a question on SO or SF. You still have full privileges to edit and leave comments as long as your account is associated (which you can do post migration). | |
| May 26, 2011 at 10:14 | comment | added | Pekka | @mplungjan from what I can see (also from your very insightful comment at EE on the nature of both systems), SO and EE follow a fundamentally different philosophy. I personally much prefer SO's approach - if I'm going to give away some of my time for free, I want that askers get forced to invest some amount of own effort and discipline (but not necessarily money). But if there is an functioning ecosystem that works with a more lenient approach (and askers paying), that's fine. As I said in my comment above, I think the EE hating in our community is starting to get really old. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 8:47 | comment | added | mplungjan | Another huge difference between EE and StackExchange - if you dare ask a question that is deemed off topic, e.g. a server related question at SO instead of whatever the server related site of the day is called, then you will be wacked very hard over your fingers, if you are lucky, the question will be moved to a site where you have no or less rep, if not, just plain closed as off topic. If you ask a server related question in the programming zone at EE, some friendly soul will re-tag and re-zone it for you and that is it. Disclaimer: I am as much at EE as I am at SO. Room for both IMNHO | |
| May 26, 2011 at 8:40 | comment | added | mplungjan | EE sends emails (if so told) immediately there are comments on an answer. SO sends once a day. At least until recently. I stopped ticking the email and instead reloads the SO page once in a while to see the red dot. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 15:36 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek | This all came up ages ago when they had that blog post about how SO will run out of money and EE will reign supreme. People took the time to carefully explain everything to them, particularly how accepted answers work. Apparently they just ignored it | |
| May 25, 2011 at 14:14 | comment | added | Adam Rackis | Definitely recent—I got it this morning. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 14:13 | history | answered | Bill the Lizard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |