Too much interesting but ultimately not useful stuff gets in the way of finding useful stuff. Is it useful? It might be interesting, but it is impossible to remove the crap content from it (go to page 11 and start reading backwards and saying "is that useful or not?"). and it has 320 visible answers when it was locked. Sure, Strangest language feature is interesting. Though when all of those things are together on one site it makes the job of the people trying to curate it impossible. Its possible to have a site that is a mashup of /r/programming, /r/programmerhumor and /r/learnprogramming (and a few others) all on one site. Its not an easy job and is quite thankless. Another thing is the response rate on SO is dramatically better than Linkedin, which doesnt surprise me: I do my best to answer every SO Careers message while I mostly ignore Linkedin recruiters.Ī core problem for Stack Overflow is the lack of people willing to curate material. He told me some companies specify they want to hire from the pool of Top X% in given technology. I have landed a job recently via SO and chatted with the recruiter a bit about their experience with the platform.
The closer it gets into "RTFM" territory the bigger the possible payoff.ĮDIT: And the karma DOES matter if you want to get new opportunities via stackoverflow careers. I don't have a problem with that, I don't answer on SO only to accumulate points, but in my opinion it skews the incentives towards going after the low-hanging fruit.
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The answers that required some effort, more code and explanations are not that "valuable" because they answer more specific problem that is not shared by many developers. My top 3 answers are one-liners that solve "problems" any semi-competent developer shouldn't even need stackoverflow to solve.
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