As a SysAdmin at Stack Exchange, I just want to say thanks to all of you who've shown support for our sites! It's awesome to sit down to a ML thread and see our work so highly regarded.
Just so you are all aware, we are VERY interested in finding ways of growing ServerFault's community and participation. As some of you may know, ServerFault has a strong, awesome community, but we're bummed that it doesn't quite have the same reach as stackoverflow. It's a problem we discuss here internally among our SysAdmins and the community building team often. Usually when someone in the community has a programming question, the answer is "check stackoverflow!" and we're hoping that ServerFault becomes just as ubiquitous. If anyone has ideas on how ServerFault and LOPSA can come together to do awesome things, feel free to e-mail our marketing director, Alison Sperling, at [email protected]. She's always very interested in hearing about new and creative ways to improve the sites for their core user base. Again, many thanks for the positive input and don't be bashful about participating on ServerFault! Pete On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Tom Limoncelli <[email protected]> wrote: > I absolutely dislike "web forums" and prefer email. However, > StackExchange rocks! It's goal isn't to be a BBS. Instead, their > goal is to accumulate the "canonical answer" to all the questions > about a certain topic. Thus, duplicate questions are nixed, and > topics can be "closed" once the question is answered definitively. > The way they achieve this is with "game dynamics" that reward good > behavior (you get "points"). It's pretty awesome. > > After not using LaTeX for 10 years I found tex.stackexchange.com was > full of all the answers I needed for a recent TeX project I did. The > http://stackoverflow.com (programming) and http://serverfault.com > (sysadmin) and http://unix.stackexchange.com/ (unix and linux) sites > are great too. > > Tom > >
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