Fake internet points.. That's all that matters.. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I believe it's more a question of: "How do people convince their customers that they are experts in their field, thus allowing them to make more money in their current business.
And that's exactly what I do. As an added bonus, it feels good to help people. Improve this answer. Amal Murali 5, 20 20 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges. Jeff Jeff 6 6 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges.
It's hard to imagine anyone other than SE corporate making actual decisions involving money based on someone's site reputation. Robert, I couldn't disagree more. I refer a lot of my clients to my SE profiles which has resulted in a lot of business for my company. RobertHarvey - Straight-up reputation numbers, probably not.
However, I've received a lot of consulting offers based on having a number of highly upvoted answers in specific areas. Reading someone's answers can give you a decent feel for how knowledgable they are in an area, as well as how strong their communication skills are. And especially just being here means that you are one of the "cool guys" and not a programmer. This plays an extremely big role if the person hiring you is also a "cool guy".
This means that they never googled a programming question.. Koper, google.. Robert Harvey: re "making actual decisions involving money based on When you do that, you get loot: When you build respect and trust with your peers, good things tend to happen. Other times, you just get a really good feeling about what you spent some of your life doing. Tim Post Tim Post k 87 87 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Most common: I figured out how to do X, so I could build product Y, and then sell it.
Eric G Eric G 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Occupy Stack Ove Carry on. I believe the people who are busy working on x-project dictated by their employer are the ones asking the least popular questions.
By the time I am an expert in a subject and can think of an insightful question which will get a lot of votes, I no longer have reason to ask the community said question - unless it's just to gain rep.
If you are on Stack Overflow to make money, you probably are here for the wrong reasons. Community Bot 1. Stack Overflow thrives on its community; if its community decides to migrate, Stack Overflow will no longer be able to make money by connecting people with jobs, serving advertisements, and the Stack Overflow for Teams product may lose credibility.
Their future is on the line. Interesting article! Anyone who has coded including me can attest to the importance of stackoverflow. Sad to see the recent news regarding the moderator firings and changes to the website. Do you think this is a part of the broader resentment against tech Google faced a lot of protests, Amazon was put under a lot of scrutiny although the context was different than StackOverflow?
Or is this happening only at StackOverflow? I think that this is very much a Stack-Overflow-only resentment that has been building up over quite some time. In that sense, I think these complaints are very unique to Stack Overflow. Notice that the Meta post with the most votes had less than votes. And there are over 11 million users. You must be logged in to post a comment.
Skip to content. Asked 9 years, 11 months ago. Active 9 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 12k times. Improve this question. More of a question for Programmers StackExchange. Edit: In fact, it's already a duplicate: programmers. Many of them have day jobs. A few probably work for companies that support their FOSS work. A few might monetize their FOSS work by charging for support. Sorry for the duplicate question.
My bad. There are many ways I did not make a response since i consider my answear too vague.
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