Name | StackOverflow |
|---|---|
| Website | stackoverflow.com |
| Who uses the site? | Developers, programmers, experts and enthusiasts. Other site have experts and enthusiasts in their domain. |
| Topics | Technical programming issues. Issues relevant to the domain for the other sites in the network. |
| User reputation system | Yes scores, badges |
| Related questions | Yes |
| Related video | No |
| Tag assignments | Yes |
| Ratings for question | Yes up or down |
| Ratings for comments | Yes up or down |
| Summary | Yes Summary appears at tooltip |
| Follow questions | Yes Via RSS feeds on each question |
| Follow topics | Yes via RSS feeds on tags |
| Follow members | No People aren't the focus of the sites, the questions and answers are. |
| Post a Message to Your Followers | No |
| Ability to edit question (modify) | Yes Anybody can suggest edits (subject to approval). Users with 2K+ rep can make edits straight away. |
| Ability to suggest edits to answers | Yes Anybody can suggest edits (subject to approval). Users with 2K+ rep can make edits straight away. |
| Email notifications | Yes Tick the box at the bottom of your question. |
| Search box autocompletes | No |
| Saves drafts of posts | Yes A single draft of a question or answer is saved |
| Revert modifications | Yes Edits can be rolled back to any previous version by anyone with edit rights. |
| Real-time updating | Yes |
| Statistics | Yes asked, viewed, latest activity |
| Volunteer moderators | Yes Voted on by the rest of the community |
| Time-boxed conversations | No |
| Advertisements | Yes Reduced for users with more than 200 rep |
| Technology platform used for other sites | Yes http://stackexchange.com/ |
| Content license / Terms | Open data: CC-by-SA license (free to Remix, to reuse with attribution link) |
| Identity system | Google, Yahoo, Myopenid, Facebook, AOL, Blogger, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Verisign, Openid, ClaimID, ClickPass, Google Profile, Stackoverflow account. |
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