| > If you have 200+ rep on any one site, you can upvote on any other site Yeah that's if you create an account there. Land on a random SE site from Google or from the Hot Network questions and chances are you don't even have an account. The site looks exactly like Stack Overflow, but if I press the upvote button I get an annoying error and the person who wrote that answer doesn't get any points. If I do create an account, every time I infrequently visit that site I'm met with an annoying banner to "remember to upvote". Despite the fact that I upvote Stack Overflow questions daily. You can't win. Editing is the other major place where I feel this annoyance. On Stack Overflow I edit a ton of posts to correct typos, grammar, code formatting, and capitalization. But I can't donate my free labor on SuperUser or AskDifferent. I'm not going to add these minor edits to a review queue. So the sites are just worse off because of arbitrary site siloing. > Each site has slightly different cultural expectations, and the belief - which maybe should be tested - is that that expertise doesn't cross between sites. I'd very much question that belief. Maybe for the more esoteric sites, but a good user on Stack Overflow is going to be right at home on SuperUser, Ask Different, or any of the myriad slightly-different-but-mostly-the-same tech sites with slightly different focuses. |