A Community I Love
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I recently joined the Stack Overflow community, and have been loving it. The site is primarily a programming help site, which is run by the users. Anyone can post a question or answer, and your peers are the ones who rate the quality of question or answer. The better the questions and answers you post, the more features of the site become available to you.
While some of the features of the site are debatable (for example, equating high usage with responsibility, as is done by their reputation system), the overall idea is excellent. I have taken to using the site almost exclusively for any programming and related questions I have, and the quality and timeliness of the responses has been astounding. I rarely have to wait more than a few minutes to get a few responses, and users are responsible in that they will ask appropriate questions and rephrase their responses according to the answers. If I ask a question that has already been asked, someone will direct me to the original question.
While this community is still developing, I am happy to be a part of it as it grows.
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