Experts Exchange
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I'm gathering other peoples experience with using Experts Exchange. Every so often a Google search will bring back several hits for Experts Exchange and I would like to see the answer but can't because of the fee involved. I've never been willing to cough up the $12/month fee because so many other sources of help are available. Is it worth it? Is it any better than news groups? Is it any better than all of the free help available?
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I still have an old "Expert" account there, so I can see the results. :D However, finding them, especially with the pixeled-out answers and the mouseovers they designed of late is very annoying (even for me who only has to remember the password) and very questionable business. Generally, comparing with the old CodeGuru and todays CodeProject, the answer system did provide for a much higher quality, especially for question that need long involved discussions. What a little point counter can do! However, this isn't necessarily true for one particular question. Downside of stimulating commpetetiveness: Even giving 'B' grades for an answer would usually cause the affected expert to burst out in flames (some would have preferred to be not awarded points at all), so it became customary to give 'A' grades to all but useless answers. Effect: the grade you see doesn't reflect the true quality of the answer. Conclusion: Signing up to see the answers for a particular question will likely frustrate you. I can't judge the current quality. When I left, the site was at an all-time low with everything. All in all, EE is another interesting and sad story of "the bubble".
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I'm gathering other peoples experience with using Experts Exchange. Every so often a Google search will bring back several hits for Experts Exchange and I would like to see the answer but can't because of the fee involved. I've never been willing to cough up the $12/month fee because so many other sources of help are available. Is it worth it? Is it any better than news groups? Is it any better than all of the free help available?
It's good to be alive
I find that site very annoying. Even when it was free because essentially they're just stealing threads from other sites, you can find the same threads often in usenet or other groups. I wish Google wouldn't index it at all so it would just get out of the way of my search results.
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I'm gathering other peoples experience with using Experts Exchange. Every so often a Google search will bring back several hits for Experts Exchange and I would like to see the answer but can't because of the fee involved. I've never been willing to cough up the $12/month fee because so many other sources of help are available. Is it worth it? Is it any better than news groups? Is it any better than all of the free help available?
It's good to be alive
I cannot say that I've used EE. I cannot validate paying a monthly fee for something that I could just find using Google (or CP for that matter) for free. It frustrates me to no end though to search for something in Google that I'm struggling with, only to see the top 5 results are coming from Experts Exchange...
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I'm gathering other peoples experience with using Experts Exchange. Every so often a Google search will bring back several hits for Experts Exchange and I would like to see the answer but can't because of the fee involved. I've never been willing to cough up the $12/month fee because so many other sources of help are available. Is it worth it? Is it any better than news groups? Is it any better than all of the free help available?
It's good to be alive
I've come across relevent search results to Experts Exchange in my google searches as well, after searching CP first, and have been frustrated that you need to pay dues to see the results of their queries. I guess that there are enough folks out there that pony up the dough to keep this a viable solution but with the amount of free solutions available to people willing to look for it I don't see this as a viable solution.
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I really don't want or need advice about getting an expert-sex-change. ;P
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They originally had only
experts-exchange.comregistered, but when venture captial hit, in full understanding of the new economy, they registeredexpertsexchange.com, and started to promote and use it. Needless to say, all the sneering it caused in the (EE) Lounge was the least of the problems they had with that. :D They didn't keep that domain name for long.We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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I remember reading awhile back that their original domain was, in fact, www.expertsexchange.com. It goes down as one of the all-time worst domain name choice mistakes out there. They changed it after they realized what they'd done. Cheers, Drew.
not really (see my post below yours) - at least that's how I remember it (I was there..)
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Most of the pages will show the answers if you scroll down enough, there is also a greasemonkey plugin that decodes it.
Steve Hansen wrote:
there is also a greasemonkey plugin that decodes it.
Does that still work? I heard that EE fixed this towards the end of 2007.
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I'm gathering other peoples experience with using Experts Exchange. Every so often a Google search will bring back several hits for Experts Exchange and I would like to see the answer but can't because of the fee involved. I've never been willing to cough up the $12/month fee because so many other sources of help are available. Is it worth it? Is it any better than news groups? Is it any better than all of the free help available?
It's good to be alive
I have used experts exchange many times (but not recently) and never paid anything ( because I had a lot of expert points) but I have not used it in a few years because it was horribly slow and now I usually find the answer I want with a google search anyways.
John
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Turtle Hand wrote:
Is it any better than news groups?
It has way more ads... which, if you think about it, is a pretty good trick. AFAIK, you can usually scroll down to see the answers, or pull them from Google Cache. I've never been impressed, so either they're hiding the good ones, or...
But who is the king of all of these folks?
Cache does the trick, thanks.
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