social capital tracking

Stack Overflow is doing some cool things with community building within the programming Q/A niche. Specifically, their reputation system works pretty similarly to how I envision XP working for questor: more reputation means more access and privileges at the site. They have some high quality stuff going on, I'm taking notes.

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  1. Did you find this through searching for a specific question about programming or did you hear of some other way? I find it rather handy for work (in addition to the fun aspects of the programmer community social space they created).

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  2. It came up in my RSS somewhere, and it looked interesting. I've been trying to find questions I can answer, but it's hard to get to them before everyone else. And also I have to admit that I don't have a lot of patience for some of the "why doesn't my code work!" nonsense. But even if it's not my ideal community, the tools are interesting.

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