Jordan Kong | Blog: Q&A
It’s interesting to see the rise of Q&A websites such as Quora and Stack Overflow through the lens of defunct Ask Jeeves search engine. Despite how terrible the search functions of Ask Jeeves was, it was a step ahead of the competition by allowing users to search through questions. From…
there is actually a huge amount of formal moderation, joel was really careful about how the community was built and because it comes out of the joel on software community which was also carefully curated, inherits from that carefulness, and Charlie Cheever bugged the people who were the most knowledgeable about a given question to come answer it.
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there is actually a huge amount...formal moderation, joel was really careful about