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'''Stack Overflow''' is a [[website]] featuring questions and answers on a wide range of topics in [[computer programming]].<ref name="secrets">{{citeweb | title = Secrets of social site success | url = http://www.sdtimes.com/SHORT_TAKES_APRIL_15_2009/About_SHORTTAKES/33403 | work = SD Times | date = 2009-04-15 |accessdate=2009-04-16| author = Alan Zeichick}}</ref>. Created by [[Joel Spolsky]] and Jeff Atwood in 2008<ref name="introducing">{{citeweb | title = Introducing Stackoverflow.com | url = http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001101.html | work = Coding Horror | date = 2008-04-16 |accessdate=2009-03-11| author = Jeff Atwood}}</ref><ref>{{citeweb | title = None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us | url = http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001169.html | work = Coding Horror | date = 2008-09-16 |accessdate=2009-03-11| author = Jeff Atwood}}</ref> as a more open alternative to early forums like [[Experts Exchange]], the site features the ability to ask and answer questions, vote questions and answers up and down, edit questions and answers, and so forth by its membership. Users of Stack Overflow can earn reputation points and “badges”; for example, a person is awarded 10 reputation points for receiving an “up” vote on an answer given to a question on the site.<ref name="soFAQ">[http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation Stack Overflow FAQ, “What is Reputation?”] (last viewed: [[2009-02-26]])</ref> Unregistered users have access to most of the site's functionality, with users signed in using an [[OpenID]] gaining access to the remaining functionality.
