Looks really cool. I glanced through their explanation of how it works and I'm still not sure how versioning works with respect to providing version-specific instances of the docs that apply to a particular language/framework/whatever.
stackoverflow needs to be circumvented... they block a large chunk of everything posted, and it gets buried so fast the only way you'll see it is if you're linked to it; and where are you going to find a compilation of links for blocked stackoverflow posts? Nowhere.
Then if you look into it you'll see something called "stackoverflow careers". Now this in combination with having seen a person on stackoverflow with over 100k rep writing extremely newbish questions that generated a ton of traffic, therefore gaining him more rep, I thought to look up what was really going on on that website. I mean, they were blocking so many posts of mine I couldn't fucking do anything on the site, and it was so rife with that behavior I knew something was up. In my searching I found this article about the decline of stackoverflow. I think everyone who uses the site will find that a fantastic read, and I can personally confirm all but one of the claims made in the article.
I hope stackoverflow's people are reading this because this is going to deal a massive blow to their egos. Read it and weep boys..
I'm sick of these people learning about computer science and using their knowledge for selfish and evil gain.
TLDR; stackoverflow is gamed by the webmasters for programmers to put on their stackoverflow account on their resumes to get jobs. They're creating artificially scarce high rep users by blocking competing users from gaining rep.
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3 u/ForgotMyName 21 Jul 2016 20:19
Looks really cool. I glanced through their explanation of how it works and I'm still not sure how versioning works with respect to providing version-specific instances of the docs that apply to a particular language/framework/whatever.
0 u/J_Darnley 22 Jul 2016 14:41
Oh goody. Copy pasted, inaccurate, out of date documentation is what every developer needs.
-1 u/Anson 02 Aug 2016 08:07
stackoverflow needs to be circumvented... they block a large chunk of everything posted, and it gets buried so fast the only way you'll see it is if you're linked to it; and where are you going to find a compilation of links for blocked stackoverflow posts? Nowhere.
Then if you look into it you'll see something called "stackoverflow careers". Now this in combination with having seen a person on stackoverflow with over 100k rep writing extremely newbish questions that generated a ton of traffic, therefore gaining him more rep, I thought to look up what was really going on on that website. I mean, they were blocking so many posts of mine I couldn't fucking do anything on the site, and it was so rife with that behavior I knew something was up. In my searching I found this article about the decline of stackoverflow. I think everyone who uses the site will find that a fantastic read, and I can personally confirm all but one of the claims made in the article.
I hope stackoverflow's people are reading this because this is going to deal a massive blow to their egos. Read it and weep boys..
I'm sick of these people learning about computer science and using their knowledge for selfish and evil gain.
TLDR; stackoverflow is gamed by the webmasters for programmers to put on their stackoverflow account on their resumes to get jobs. They're creating artificially scarce high rep users by blocking competing users from gaining rep.