Comments on: Desuckifying Experts-Exchange

By: EEvangelist

EEvangelist — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:17:51 +0000

1. if the question has been answered and spidered and not just the title spidered, the answer will be there if you scroll down.

2. EE is a great place to ask technical questions – if you do not want to pay, become an expert for free, answer a few questions in your related field a month for full, free, ad-free access to ask and search.

3. Yes, StackOverflow is free, it also has ads, elitists who ridicule you if your question is too vague or not programmatically interesting and there is room for SO and EE and any other site that wants to help people regardless of the site’s revenue model. So stop hating. EE will eventually learn that they need to lower the paywall to stop pissing people off.

By: bricktop

bricktop — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:44:35 +0000

Had trouble figuring out how to save the file.

Saved it as an XML file & stripped off the numbers.

Thanks. It works for me.

By: Webbit

Webbit — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:16:17 +0000

Seem EE locked out this hack.

Just stop working.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:45:30 +0000

You the man!

By: John

John — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:38:49 +0000

So, if EE is so crap why are you using it? Answer a few questions a month and you get no adverts.

Funny how everyone expects help with their problems, but never gives anything in return.

I also don't know how you google results get "flooded" with EE results. Never happens with me. Do you think it's possible you're searching for such lose terms that google thinks EE is perfect for you because you don't know what you looking for?

By: phototacular

phototacular — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:07:43 +0000

Thanks for the tips! The site looks MUCH cleaner now.

By: mythos

mythos — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:46:31 +0000

thanks bro! :)

By: nico5038

nico5038 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:18:43 +0000

When you get the crappy EE question using google, just use the "in cache" link to see what's there when the google bot did index the page.

As stated before, many Q&A's are incomplete and "nuggets" hard to find. This is a $$ driven company using cloaking for forcing people to pay for informaton they ca get for free on other sites like http://www.bytes.com and the newsgroups.

Just ignore the Experts Exchange hits from google is probably the best advice. And when annoyed by this put a complaunt at Google, as this showing a different result for the google bot and the user is considered cloaking and not according the Google guidelines.

Nic;o)

By: lqdice

lqdice — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:53:19 +0000

As said before, just scroll down to the end of the page. The real answers are there. They just put some fake "cloaks" on the top to fake users into thinking the information is all hidden.

By: Tyler Onbekend

Tyler Onbekend — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:52:00 +0000

I appreciate what Chris is trying to do here, but I eventually decided that instead of the overhead of another FF add-on, I'd just bolster one I had installed already; Greasemonkey. There are a couple Greasemonkey scripts that accomplish the same thing. I found three in about five minutes Googling (after picking through the EE search spam, grin) and I'm going to compare them over the next couple days.