Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange: Programming the Programmers

Jeff Atwood

stackoverflow.comstackexchange.comcodinghorror.com

Reputation always comes from your peers

Never from “the system”

Never from repetition

Time invested ≠ skill

New users can’t vote until others have voted for them.

Give real power to the community.

It scales.

You don’t.

“The Game” is people teaching (and learning from) each other

Game elements should always exist in service of a higher purpose

So… what’s your higher purpose?

How are you making it easier for your community to help each

other and learn from each other?