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Is stack-overflow a block-chain concept?

2 points by mathcomp7 ↗ HN
I think that stack-overfow is conceptually a bitcoin for prestige. It should be easy to use a real block-chain to reflect the use of SO using prestige points as units of transactions. I believe that many of you are thinking of using block-chain as a way to achieve better interactions with your would be clients. And surely time is ripe for creating a chain-block abstraction whose main objective is to convert or introduce publically known value into money or other block-chain value so that recursively it finally achieves liquity and moneritation.

In SO you can see the complete history of how someone gained prestige. SO a ledged book for prestige points , that book is a web page trusted internationally as of real value for programmers and open to knew transations openly with little censorship.

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avoidwork
a forum as a public ledger doesn't make sense due to the processing requirements. a public ledger just doesn't make sense for most things.
mathcomp7
I have updated the post. In SO I think such a scheme could be implemented for sharing prestige in case people care enough.
qubex
Why do I care how somebody has earned their prestige? I want my questions answered, and nobody should care (much) about anything else. It’s already elitist and hostile to newcomers, the last thing we need is that it be enshrined in the implicit underlying data-structure that ’prestige’ is the whole point of the enterprise. Keep in mind that karma points or whatever are first and foremost an instrument for classifying replies from users, and only as a side-effect became a badge of honour. If anything that tendency should be suppressed to avoid concentration and the old-boys-club effect, not the opposite.
mathcomp7
For a simple user of SO you could only care about de quality of answers, but for someone hiring it can be a very useful information. I agree with you that special care should be taken to avoid SO take a bag stance about new users to keep power.
qubex
People strutting their stuff to appeal to recruiters, and recruiters going for those who strut their stuff, probably summarises a lot of that which is rotten in the tech world (and one of the big reasons I stated well clear of it).