Once VC money gets involved there has to be a path to monetization somewhere. I don't want to argue the virtue level of the founders because there's no point in it. EE started off as a community and still is a…
SO has swag for top rep earners so it's a distinction without a difference. The original article talked about getting paid for answering and I thought you were reacting to that with your post.
Experts Exchange NEVER paid cash for answers. People answered questions to earn t-shirts or free memberships but never money. It's an idea that has been discussed for as long as I've been involved with EE and prior but…
Joel, Not all of us misunderstand where SO is going or your motivations. I've posted as much here: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/92683/what-experts-e... The facts are that despite what everyone thinks/hopes,…
The design changes are nice, but we're also waiting to see how Experts Exchange reconfigures itself to deal with the new Panda rules.
The update was beneficial to Google, not necessarily to its users. A lot of Google properties (Demand Media, anyone?) that are clearly content farms climbed up the rankings while good sites like Stack, DaniWeb, and…
Experts Exchange is not scamming anyone: you, google, whomever. All they did was play Google's game by Google's rules with first-click free and did it better than anyone else for a long time. Now that Google has changed…
The only reason Stack remains free is because of the large cash infusions they received from VCs. As soon as they burn through it without coming up with a viable replacement that still allows free access, they will…
Once VC money gets involved there has to be a path to monetization somewhere. I don't want to argue the virtue level of the founders because there's no point in it. EE started off as a community and still is a…
SO has swag for top rep earners so it's a distinction without a difference. The original article talked about getting paid for answering and I thought you were reacting to that with your post.
Experts Exchange NEVER paid cash for answers. People answered questions to earn t-shirts or free memberships but never money. It's an idea that has been discussed for as long as I've been involved with EE and prior but…
Joel, Not all of us misunderstand where SO is going or your motivations. I've posted as much here: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/92683/what-experts-e... The facts are that despite what everyone thinks/hopes,…
The design changes are nice, but we're also waiting to see how Experts Exchange reconfigures itself to deal with the new Panda rules.
The update was beneficial to Google, not necessarily to its users. A lot of Google properties (Demand Media, anyone?) that are clearly content farms climbed up the rankings while good sites like Stack, DaniWeb, and…
Experts Exchange is not scamming anyone: you, google, whomever. All they did was play Google's game by Google's rules with first-click free and did it better than anyone else for a long time. Now that Google has changed…
The only reason Stack remains free is because of the large cash infusions they received from VCs. As soon as they burn through it without coming up with a viable replacement that still allows free access, they will…