Timeline for Steel your resolve, Trello is upon us and we are flooded
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| Sep 15, 2011 at 21:04 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @Gilles: Hm. Well, I should have done this before I posted, but I did just take a quick look at the front page, and I don't see anything at all unusual happening, other than Rich Armstrong has posted five questions in the last four hours or so. Note that there does seem to be a degree of official support for this kind of seeding. Folks may not like it, but it's not exactly unprecedented. | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 20:58 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @RobertHarvey I am using spam in the sense of unsolicited advertisements, which is the meaning I've seen most often (it doesn't carry a connotation of off-topicness; if you post message upon message about the jeans you're selling, it's spam, even on a clothes forum). Asking questions about your own product is unsolicited. Doing it in a large amount is advertising. | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 20:53 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @Gilles: Are we really calling these posts spam? If they're spam, that's a bird of another feather, but some people on Stack Overflow have historically bent the word "spam" to meet their own convenient interpretation. Spam is indiscriminate posting of advertisements, not posting of legitimate questions. On the SE network, that means you are promoting your blog, website or product with a sales message. Don't call it something it isn't. | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 20:49 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @RobertHarvey How about the FAQ? “The community frowns on overt self-promotion and tends to vote it down and flag it as spam. (…) If a huge percentage of your posts include a mention of your product or website, you're probably here for the wrong reasons.” | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 20:39 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @ChrisF: I'm open to an interpretation of the rules that forbids this, but I don't think one exists. If the site is that quiet, how is seeding it with questions a bad thing? | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 20:37 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod | @Robert, that's part of the problem. Half a dozen or so questions on SO won't easily get noticed, here they're on the front page for most of the day. | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 20:30 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @Eight: Self-answered questions are perfectly OK, assuming that the library has broad enough appeal to other programmers that the questions are not too localized. There are question-asking throttles on Stack Overflow that limit the number of questions any one person (and possibly any one IP) can ask in a given time period, so it would have to be a coordinated effort by many people on different IP's to produce a true flood. | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 20:27 | comment | added | Eight Days of Malaise | How would these posts or users fare on SO if they posted and self-answered about their brand new library? | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 20:23 | history | answered | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |