Stack Overflow Service
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A Stack Overflow Service is a privately-held community-based coding QA service.
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- See: Website-based Service, Stack Exchange Network, Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky, Experts Exchange, Computer Programming, Wiki, Digg, Trust Metric, Gamification, Q&A Site, User-Generated Content, CC-BY-SA 3.0.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow Retrieved:2014-8-8.
- Stack Overflow is a privately held website, the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network, created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, as a more open alternative to earlier Q&A sites such as Experts Exchange. The name for the website was chosen by voting in April 2008 by readers of Coding Horror, Atwood's popular programming blog. It features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming. The website serves as a platform for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down and edit questions and answers in a fashion similar to a wiki or digg. Users of Stack Overflow can earn reputation points and "badges"; for example, a person is awarded 10 reputation points for receiving an "up" vote on an answer given to a question, and can receive badges for their valued contributions, which represents a kind of gamification of the traditional Q&A site or forum. All user-generated content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license. [1] Closing unsuccessful questions is encouraged as a mechanism to differentiate from competitors such as Yahoo! Answers. , Stack Overflow has over 2,700,000 registered users and more than 7,100,000 questions. Based on the type of tags assigned to questions, the top eight most discussed topics on the site are: C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Android, jQuery, Python and C++.