>Hell, i've never heard of anybody who's ever used Expert Exchange.
I was an expert there about, oh I don't know, 8 years ago¹ - I got a months free premium account for answering and getting X amount of points in a month. Next time I went back (in common with another commenter here) I couldn't generally access solutions despite having provided some of those solutions myself.
However, I did find that it was, when I joined, the best place to get in depth computing answers. My last question there was in 2009 and I still got a pretty useful answer. I've used it since for a couple of specific searches.
Having looked there once again it still looks like I might get useful answers there.
Sample of questions being asked now:
16/02/11 500 Google Maps to be placed in a MS... Tavasan65 0 PHP Scripting...
16/02/11 500 RHN registration AXISHK 0 Red Hat Linux
16/02/11 500 Multiple domain names, multiple... bradpink 0 Lotus Domino Email...
16/02/11 125 traceroute from Mac (Net Utility... squidzink 0 Apple Networking
16/02/11 500 Oracle SQL query updating the... jvera524 0 Microsoft Excel...
16/02/11 250 Regex to find relative filenames... crysallus 0 Regular Expressions
16/02/11 50 Simple scalar tool Tom3333 0 Programming...
16/02/11 500 Syncing Outlook Notes with iPhone 4 richeyd 0 iPhone
16/02/11 500 jquery thickbox tranaparent window ... dev09 0 JavaScript
16/02/11 500 NetApp SAN Choice pitchford 0 VMware*
Their novel way of using points seemed to work pretty well at eliciting good responses. One of the things I did was to build up a reserve of points when I was volunteering with a computer refurb/education charity in case I had specific questions about some obscure piece of donated hardware. The system seemed to emphasise well that most people could trade knowledge.
StackOverflow started 12 years after Experts Exchange.
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1 - just looked it up via Google, 2001-06-06 was my join date apparently.
I was an expert there about, oh I don't know, 8 years ago¹ - I got a months free premium account for answering and getting X amount of points in a month. Next time I went back (in common with another commenter here) I couldn't generally access solutions despite having provided some of those solutions myself.
However, I did find that it was, when I joined, the best place to get in depth computing answers. My last question there was in 2009 and I still got a pretty useful answer. I've used it since for a couple of specific searches.
Having looked there once again it still looks like I might get useful answers there.
Sample of questions being asked now:
Their novel way of using points seemed to work pretty well at eliciting good responses. One of the things I did was to build up a reserve of points when I was volunteering with a computer refurb/education charity in case I had specific questions about some obscure piece of donated hardware. The system seemed to emphasise well that most people could trade knowledge.StackOverflow started 12 years after Experts Exchange.
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1 - just looked it up via Google, 2001-06-06 was my join date apparently.