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Personally I find that style of interface to be utterly soulless and turns community members into what amounts to "unpaid 1st line support". Anything with those thumbs up/down reputation systems is a turn off for me. I don't get what's so difficult about posting "thank you that was helpful" or just ignoring or reporting the unhelpful responses. That kind of system turns forum participation into dog eat dog competitiveness. I'm probably getting old, but I just don't get it.
Oh, so linuxexchange is part of stackexchange. Ok, then I did know.
Apparently not. Read the comment under my answer.
I was definitely not aware of the political issues here.
Jeremy's "LinuxExchange is 'StackOverflow for Linux and Open Source' and is built on the StackExchange platform." doesn't help, but I'm not the person responsible for writing that.
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I would say that the S.O. thread is a flame because I know how to write one myself.
The premise is that Stackoverflow is the incumbent and why should they switch to product B when their whites could not be any whiter. Stackoverflow is really not a forum and all methods to chat on the internet exploit; to some degree , better attributes. S.O is more of a mini tutorial. They are rarely stumped on that site and the level of intellect is very high but you are going to get a paragraph volleyed back at you so if it is an in depth concept the information is going to be quite dense and there for a tough read. I personally don't think that the method works well enough. It does attract the brainiac types.
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After just finishing reading the SO thread I am wondering how long it will take for a small, but overly vocal, group of SO members to join here and start attacking LQ in this thread. I think Juako's reply was brilliant, it is unfortunate the tone was the subsequently lowered somewhat. It is hard to claim the moral high ground when you can't even reach it yourself.
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I've moved this to LQS&F forum by request (and I was indeed already aware of the thread going on at SO, although I'll read it again more closely now as it seems to have more responses since I read it last). For clarification, http://linuxexchange.org/ is in no way related to StackOverflow or StackExchange. It's not technically part of The Questions Network, but like LQ and AQ it is run by me. It's powered by the Open Source OSQA platform.
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