Joshua Lin (@konekoya)
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There's more than you know
- Joel Spolsky is the co-founder of the site
- StackOverflow is just part of the Stack Exchange
- They hold an annual survey
Answer, vote and more
- You have need to have an account first...
- Privileges: you have to earn reputation in order to unlock some of the things that you can do on SO
- Answering a question is not that difficult
- Asking a question is even easier
- Vote up and down for questions and answers
- Flag, edit and improve posts
- Review and Triage
Improve your accepted rate
- Answer the question as soon as possible
- Edit and polish the answer until you're satisfied of it
- Provide a runnable code example when possible
- Provide detailed explanation
- Don't use words like: Hi, hello, help this help or something like this, just the "answer"
- Help to improve the "question", editing title, content, code format or even adding/removing tags