Just realized, I'm actually asking a question here.. how would you kick off one of these sorts of sites if you wanted it to become popular? Pre-populate it with a fake community? Get a group of friends to use it in anger?
The remants of StackOverflow are kind of an important issue. The guy raises good questions (how do I post maps (say Google Maps) or do other industry specific stuff) and brings up good points about how applicable some stuff is to non-programming sites.
If they haven't done it already, I expect a Wordpress style "plugin" system could cater for all this if.... it were an open source (or even self hosted) app. Except, it ain't and I can only see "enterprise" customers finding this app any way attractive.
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I'm intrigued how they've got people who aren't related to StackOverflow or programming on there already. Someone's already trying to work out what "code" means :-) http://biztravel.stackexchange.com/questions/11/feedback-abo...
Just realized, I'm actually asking a question here.. how would you kick off one of these sorts of sites if you wanted it to become popular? Pre-populate it with a fake community? Get a group of friends to use it in anger?
The remants of StackOverflow are kind of an important issue. The guy raises good questions (how do I post maps (say Google Maps) or do other industry specific stuff) and brings up good points about how applicable some stuff is to non-programming sites.
If they haven't done it already, I expect a Wordpress style "plugin" system could cater for all this if.... it were an open source (or even self hosted) app. Except, it ain't and I can only see "enterprise" customers finding this app any way attractive.