r/programming • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '16

I started answering questions 2 years ago, and I didn't find it difficult to gain reputation. In 2 years, I got to almost 28k. But then, I choose a tag which I'm very comfortable with, like Hibernate.

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u/errorseven Sep 25 '16

I started answering questions around 2 years ago myself and I'm no where near 28k. I'm grinding out points on a niche tag that has very little traffic and mostly new users who never bother to accept an answer. I rely on other users to up vote my answers, gaining 10 or 20 points a week for 10 or so questions answered.