Timeline for Why "professional capacity"?
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| May 28, 2013 at 7:37 | comment | added | the-wabbit | @AndrewB I can't see this as a mere "numbers" thing. From my news participation ("oh no, not again!") I have seen extremely fragmented structures with micro-communities (newsgroups have been created if the traffic exceeded 100 posts a month, and that's "posts", not "questions") work out neatly because the regulars were able to cross-participate in several of them rather easily. You can break up SF and this is even evidenced by the secessions of DBA, U&L, Security and Network Engineering. | |
| May 21, 2013 at 3:04 | comment | added | Andrew B | Thinking more on what I just wrote, I think it boils down to this: you could potentially justify the numbers on Area51 to generate successful SE communities based on individual programming languages, but the same cannot be said of the topics comprising specialized system administration. You could break up SO, there's just not much point. You cannot break up SF. | |
| May 21, 2013 at 2:58 | comment | added | Andrew B | @syneticon-dj I think it's a matter of high specialization. While the subject of programming can be divided into languages, if I pick a language that isn't dead, the number of people on SO who can contribute to a discussion regarding it are high. On the other hand, how many SF users can have a meaningful debate about the fine details of Exchange? What about the fine details of DNS, a topic that few understand holistically unless forced to? These are the topics that get drowned out by the signal to noise ratio. Our numbers are not enough to warrant individual SE sites. This is our SE site. | |
| May 20, 2013 at 22:09 | comment | added | the-wabbit | Thank you for taking the time - I did gain some valuable insights - especially from the history and the quantcast link. So the significant difference between Stack Overflow where the scope is at least as wide but without the "professional" constraint and Server Fault would be the critical mass? If so, isn't this kind of a chicken-and-egg problem? And why did Stack Overflow ever manage to overcome this barrier whereas no confidence is put in Server Fault to do the same? | |
| May 20, 2013 at 13:16 | comment | added | TheCleaner | +1 for the Limoncelli laugh. | |
| May 18, 2013 at 23:09 | comment | added | MDMarra | I will always +1 anything with that chart in it. | |
| May 18, 2013 at 13:48 | history | answered | sysadmin1138Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |