The first user with a million on stack overflow

Achievement unlocked: the first user appeared on Stack Overflow with 1 million reputation points.

Stack Overflow opened in September 2008 and has since helped developers from around the world find the necessary answers to technical questions. For example, the site showed a million users a way out of Vim. As of January 2017, there are 8 million registered users, 15 million questions and 24 million answers on Stack Overflow. Ten years ago, none of this happened.



Thanks to the thoughtful and collaborative work of the participants over the years, Stack Overflow has assembled a library of questions and answers on programming. This is help for all developers, especially - beginners.
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Some developers work every day to answer the questions of others for pluses. You can answer your own questions to save the results of a long search. The author gets a plus for his question - and he brings him 5 points of reputation, a plus for the answer - 10. If you are interested in the question, and the answer is useful, then they can be added to year after year. The number of pluses influences the layout of the answers on the page and the answer that users will see first. That is, nonsense, incorrect answers and all the other rubbish are minus, remain at the bottom and do not prevent site visitors from gaining value.

For ten years, each of the most active participants answered 20-23 thousand questions from developers. For their contribution to the general knowledge of the programming world, they deserve reputation points. Five developers at Stack Overflow have 700 thousand reputation points, another five have 600 thousand each, and 12 thousand have 500 thousand each. One million reputation so far with one is the British developer Jon Skeet , who joined Stack Overflow in 2008. During this time he answered 34 thousand questions. From 10 to 800 answers - so many monthly published on the Jon Skeet website in different years. 1/5 of the questions answered by Jon Skeet came from new users of the site.

Free for the pros hundreds and thousands of inhabitants of Stack Overflow answer the questions of millions of developers. Who - for fun or mood, who - for the development of communication skills, and who - for advanced training. Due to this, a lot of man-hours are saved every day, which could be spent on explanations and attempts to find the right answer.

Share your stories on how they helped you on Stack Overflow and what motivates you to answer questions!

Elizaveta Titarenko
ABBYY Corporate Blog Editor