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This is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's 100% free, no registration required. There are other sites for other topics, such as Photography, DIY, Cooking, Gaming etc.. See stackexchange.com for a full list of the current sites.
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.
Websites
English
Public
Public
Mar. 6th 2011 5:53:36 PM
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