Codeproject vs stackoverflow
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Code Project excels at articles. I may be thrown into the deepest level of hell for saying this, but I think CP's Q&A is pretty abysmal. The presentation is terrible in my opinion (and it's currently broken so I can't even point to specific things, but layout and unnecessary information (like who and when taking up huge amounts of horizontal bandwidth, and things like "your filters", "tags", and "top experts" taking up more vast amounts of real estate, and I really don't give a rats arse about how many views a question has had...anyways, you get the idea. And with stackoverflow, its presentation (while also not the greatest) at least isn't screaming at me with big bold blocks of orange and hyper-large fonts. I realize that CP wants its own branding so one has to go with whatever presentation format makes CP unique, but content-wise, stackoverflow also is so much richer and broader in community support. CP is still too much in the Microsoft camp for me to find it useful for non-Microsoft Q&A, and when it comes to Microsoft-related stuff, stackoverflow still is my first choice. That, and yes, the online MSDN documentation and bloggers, especially when it comes to more arcane things in the Microsoft world like F#. My 2c. Marc
Completely agree, also unlike CP, on SO the gurus & ninjas do keep their Self-esteems/egos on the door. Here if a new member posts a 'stupid' question, they are whipped into oblivion unlike SO And we all know Google needs the masses for it to do no evil.
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Possibly, but the reason I am here rather than there is the people. Generally, the people here are more friendly, tolerant, and generally knowledgeable than the bunch of rep obsessed sense-of-humor-failures that inhabit SO. There are exceptions here, of course. If your answer is misspelled, or contradicts someones opinion (despite being correct) it gets abuse votes or removed... Bunch of onanists, most of 'em!
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:thumbsup: for the new word you taught me today. I'm not certain that knowing it has enriched my life though.:~ I hate to think what list the NSA has put me one for googling it. :doh:
I knew that bible study they made me do at school would come in handy one day! :laugh:
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Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.
If I understand it correctly, SO has a few people employed to answer and moderate questions. This is AFAIK not the case on Codeproject.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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I knew that bible study they made me do at school would come in handy one day! :laugh:
It's indeed interesting that you can find a paraphrase for wanker in the bible. Or is it the opposite way around? Then again, if I remember the bible correctly there's nothing in it that says that Onan was a wanker for real. Maybe he literally spilled his seeds, as in seeds that grows up to become wheat.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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Code Project excels at articles. I may be thrown into the deepest level of hell for saying this, but I think CP's Q&A is pretty abysmal. The presentation is terrible in my opinion (and it's currently broken so I can't even point to specific things, but layout and unnecessary information (like who and when taking up huge amounts of horizontal bandwidth, and things like "your filters", "tags", and "top experts" taking up more vast amounts of real estate, and I really don't give a rats arse about how many views a question has had...anyways, you get the idea. And with stackoverflow, its presentation (while also not the greatest) at least isn't screaming at me with big bold blocks of orange and hyper-large fonts. I realize that CP wants its own branding so one has to go with whatever presentation format makes CP unique, but content-wise, stackoverflow also is so much richer and broader in community support. CP is still too much in the Microsoft camp for me to find it useful for non-Microsoft Q&A, and when it comes to Microsoft-related stuff, stackoverflow still is my first choice. That, and yes, the online MSDN documentation and bloggers, especially when it comes to more arcane things in the Microsoft world like F#. My 2c. Marc
Agreed. Your descriptions match how I use CP and SO as well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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If I understand it correctly, SO has a few people employed to answer and moderate questions. This is AFAIK not the case on Codeproject.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.
I don't know why but this came to mind. http://www.dorkly.com/comic/57406/the-pc-vs-console-argument-basically[^]
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There is a simple solution for that. Search programming answers inside CP side and not Google...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Possibly, but the reason I am here rather than there is the people. Generally, the people here are more friendly, tolerant, and generally knowledgeable than the bunch of rep obsessed sense-of-humor-failures that inhabit SO. There are exceptions here, of course. If your answer is misspelled, or contradicts someones opinion (despite being correct) it gets abuse votes or removed... Bunch of onanists, most of 'em!
OriginalGriff wrote:
someone's opinion
FTFY... ;)
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Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.
Indeed StackOverflow questions appear first on Google results, but to be fair, if i'm looking for an specific question, SO usually does better, while I tend to come to Code Project for articles... and of course the Lounge. :)
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:thumbsup: for the new word you taught me today. I'm not certain that knowing it has enriched my life though.:~ I hate to think what list the NSA has put me one for googling it. :doh:
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StackOverflow is explicitly set up around answering questions. That means that page titles are usually close to your query string, and the link you want to click on when you're searching for 'how do I do X' probably is the SO one, which I imagine counts in Google's scoring. CodeProject is about lengthier articles and discussion, which are more useful for reading around a topic rather than answering a particular question. For example a search for .Net TPL gives Code Project above Stack Overflow. We do have a Q&A here but it's of a lower quality and with less of a historical volume of good answers than SO's.
I tend to look to CP for short tutorials or introductions to various subjects. I usually look to SOF for answers to more detailed questions on using some subject. They both have their places and I'm glad they both exist.
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I see less codez please on Stack Overflow.
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There are a few staff but their job is about dealing with abusive posts and posters, not maintaining quality standards. That's a community role and as a community we've decided we'd prefer to tolerate some rubbish posts and questions in order to allow people to contribute to it quickly, whereas SO chooses to maintain a higher quality and exclude some new members who can't reach that level (yet?).
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Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.
Both should be considered good and useful that just target to different readers and different occasions with different purposes
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Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.
Both have their place. I browse codeproject when I want to find a new idea, stumble upon an interesting point of view, concept or API someone else is playing with. I query stackoverflow when I'm searching for an answer to a simple question someboby already had. Notice that codeproject is more for browsing, and stackoverflow for querying. Codeproject makes you ask better question but rarely give answers. Stackoverflow gives answer, but never make you ask better question. It is like if you compare a good book with google, and that you are saying that google get more view... true, but google gives you answer while the book makes you smarter.
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StackOverflow is explicitly set up around answering questions. That means that page titles are usually close to your query string, and the link you want to click on when you're searching for 'how do I do X' probably is the SO one, which I imagine counts in Google's scoring. CodeProject is about lengthier articles and discussion, which are more useful for reading around a topic rather than answering a particular question. For example a search for .Net TPL gives Code Project above Stack Overflow. We do have a Q&A here but it's of a lower quality and with less of a historical volume of good answers than SO's.
Yea this is what I had in mind myself. when i think of stackoverflow, i immediately think of questions and answers. However, codeproject has other stuff in addition such as newsletters, discussions, many other community stuff. Perhaps CP could look into it's SEO technology...
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