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by Bamafan
5052 days ago
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"Which is why the site is hugely successful." You and Jeff are confused about what makes stackoverflow.com successful. The reason stackoverflow is successful is because it's a clone of another successful tech Q&A site (experts-exchange.com) minus the scummy answer cloaking plus some social voting. That's it. All this stuff about the "right kinds" of questions being "key to its success" is based on absolutely nothing. There is nothing to support that. The one thing we do know is that deleting high quality user-generated content pisses people off. |
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On multi-sided market websites (marketplaces, forums, ugc sites, etc) community management is generally a far bigger differentiator than technology. Quora isn't better than Yahoo Answers because of it's technology, but because of it's community.
My guess is that SO wants to steer away from subjective questions which can lead to downward spiralling in quality (i.e. language/tool-chain wars) which can then have a knock-on effect on what type of behaviour users think is acceptable across the rest of the site (i.e broken window syndrome).