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jwtanner on Feb 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There i...

Is Stack Overflow a game in which the goal is to get the most reputation and badges?

Or are you using it as a tool to discover solutions to programming problems?

Or Both?

CrLf on Feb 1, 2011 [–]

Any community where you get "points" of any kind becomes a game, which eventually becomes more important than the community itself.

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