[yehosef]

This is an interesting play but doesn't seem like a good fit.

The examples on the front page: "how do I connect to our database", "what kind of email templates do we have". Are these questions that you're going to get multiple answers for and I'm going to upvote the best and/or select one as the "selected" answer. I would think this would be a sign of dysfunction in most cases. And how does the gamification play into it? (maybe it's a secret bus-factor detector.)

It seems like a regular wiki/knowledge base would be a better fit for this kind of knowledge. How would the SO structure help.

A related note, I wonder if you can disable the "Soup Nazis"[1] feature or it's too deeply embedded in the psyche of the product.

[1]https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/741.php

[shusson]

I think searching and linking to existing questions (internally and externally) would be useful.

[JasonFruit]

The useful parts you name sound a lot like a wiki.

[always_good]

SO is a wiki. Except that instead of writing aimless documentation, you can document exactly what people are asking about.

Which makes it better than just about every wiki I've used at a company or Github repo which just get out of date because they are so arbitrary and unfocused.