Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site

guzzibill writes "Joel Spolsky has announced the beta release of Stack Overflow, intended to be a high-quality source of answers to software questions. Post a software question and watch the answers flow in. Popularity voting is very much woven into the site, where both questions and answers can be edited for clarity and voted up or down for correctness. Correctly posed questions and insightful answers float to the top. This site has reached critical mass." From Joel's description, he was envisioning a source of technical Q&A about programming. So far, many of the questions are broader and less technical, such as advice on the best book about software development. It will be interesting to see where the community that's forming takes it.

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And how does this have more value then any of the

[geekoid]

100s of other more diverse cites out there?

I ahven't ahd to look past page one for a good answer to any technical question in years, perhaps Joel needs to figure out how to use google better?

Oh, you're going to add a ranking system, great that's only been done many times. And we know ranking systems always bring the cream to the top~

Good luck. Considering the poor advice that is already being ranked up, you are going to need it.