Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20%
It&#x27;s undeniable that their main developer Q&amp;A site is a really great thing that saved me many hours of work. However, it was somewhat hostile to its more export users from the very beginning: the reputation system favors quickfire replies to grab the first upvotes, and they seem to put a strong emphasis on &quot;cookbook&quot; answers where many of the more nuanced discussions were closed as &quot;opinion based&quot;. I think there are some missed opportunities here to make the Q&amp;A site even more useful.<p>However, perhaps that wasn&#x27;t their focus. My impression is the Q&amp;A site was supposed to be mostly a gateway to their other services, and for that to work, the Q&amp;A part simply had to be &quot;good enough&quot;. It&#x27;s an interesting strategy that perhaps didn&#x27;t work out quite the way they had hoped it would.