= Stack Exchange
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<Stack Exchange> solves to a good extent the use cases:
* I have a very specific question, type it on <Google>, find top answers
* I have an answer, and I put it here because it has a much greater chance of being found due to the larger <PageRank> than my <personal web page> will ever have
points of view. It is a big open question if we can actually substantially improve it.
Major shortcoming are mentioned at <idiotic Stack Overflow policies>:
* Scope restrictions can lead to a lot of content deletion: <closing questions as off-topic>
* <closing questions as off-topic>
* <Stack Overflow content deletion>
* <Stack Overflow link-only answer policy>
* <Stack Overflow no duplicate answers policy>
This greatly discourages new users, who might still have added value to the project.
On our website, anyone can post anything that is legal in a given country. No one can ever delete your content if it is legal, no matter their reputation.
* Although you can answer your own question, there's no way to write an organized multi-page book with Stack Exchange due to shortcomings such as no table of contents, 30k max chars on answer, huge risk of deletion due to "too broad"
* Absolutely no algorithmic attempt to overcome the fastest gun in the West problem (early answers have huge advantage over newer ones): https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/404535/closing-an-old-upvoted-question-as-duplicate-of-new-unvoted-questions/404567\#404567
* Native reputation system:
* if the living ultimate <God> of `C++` upvotes you, you get `10` reputation
* if the first-day newb of `Java` upvotes you, you also get `10` reputation
* Randomly split between sites like Stack Overflow vs Super User, with separate user reputations, but huge overlaps, and many questions that appears as dupes on both and never get merged.
* Possible edit wars, just like <Wikipedia>, but these are much less common since content ownership is much clearer than in Wikipedia however
Bibliography:
* https://dev.to/codemouse92/has-stackoverflow-become-an-antipattern-3icb (http://web.archive.org/web/20191021090247/https://dev.to/codemouse92/has-stackoverflow-become-an-antipattern-3icb[archive])