Trouble in the House of Stackoverflow

Re:Trouble in the House of Stackoverflow by gbelote on Saturday December 10, 2011 @02:43PM (#3338289)

I believe that's part of the motivation behind bounties: if I've invested a lot of time and accumulated karma, I can spend that karma to improve the quality/speed of answering my question.

Re: TwoToReal. It's an interesting idea, although it seems like it adds burden to the answerer. One quality I like of SO is that it encourages people to ask better questions (keep concise, provide relevant details, etc), but in a system where I'd be getting real-time help I might become lazier about posting my question. "I have a problem with node.js" rather than "I'm getting this output when trying to use node in this way".

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Re:Trouble in the House of Stackoverflow by derpapst on Saturday December 10, 2011 @02:50PM (#3338309)

That's a totally valid point, gbelote. Nevertheless, there will always be questions where you don't know you to frame a question - even after having searched around for a while.

E.g.: if you are new to Linux and X doesn't start - how could you ask if you are new to the whole field? A bit of guidance by an expert could help in 5min. And then, sometimes it is just like the xkcd strip at http://www.twotoreal.com/site/about/

I view it as a last resort - after SO/Quora/etc. could not help.

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Re:Trouble in the House of Stackoverflow by gbelote on Saturday December 10, 2011 @03:05PM (#3338355)

That's a good point. I was thinking about it as a direct replacement of SO, but like you said it doesn't have to be. Good luck!

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