How to Win at

  • The Basics
  • Awesome things you can measure
  • Neat things that I haven't done much of but could be great for you.


Source: stackoverflow.com/company

Tagging



What are tags, and how should I use them?

Points


What is reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it?
Six simple tips to get Stack Overflow reputation fast
25,000
access to site analytics
Access to internal and Google site analytics
20,000
trusted user
Expanded editing, deletion and undeletion privileges
15,000
protect questions
Mark questions as protected
10,000
access to moderator tools
Access reports, delete questions, review reviews
5,000
approve tag wiki edits
Approve edits to tag wikis made by regular users
3,000
cast close and reopen votes
Help decide whether posts are off-topic or duplicates
2,500
create tag synonyms
Decide which tags have the same meaning as others
2,000
edit questions and answers
Edits to any question or answer are applied immediately
1,500
create tags
Add new tags to the site
1,000
established user
You've been around for a while; see vote counts
1,000
create gallery chat rooms
Create chat rooms where only specific users may talk
500
access review queues
Access first posts and late answers review queues
250
view close votes
View and cast close/reopen votes on your own questions
200
reduce ads
Some ads are now automatically disabled
125
vote down
Indicate when questions and answers are not useful
100
edit community wiki
Collaborate on the editing and improvement of wiki posts
100
create chat rooms
Create new chat rooms
100
documentation review
Approve and reject proposed changes
75
set bounties
Offer some of your reputation as bounty on a question
50
comment everywhere
Leave comments on other people's posts
50
documentation comments
Comment on proposed changes and topic requests
20
talk in chat
Participate in this site's chat rooms
15
flag posts
Bring content to the attention of the community via flags
15
vote up
Indicate when questions and answers are useful
15
documentation votes
Vote on documentation content
10
remove new user restrictions
Post more links, answer protected questions
10
create wiki posts
Create answers that can be easily edited by most users
5
participate in meta
Discuss the site itself: bugs, feedback, and governance
1
create posts
Ask a question or contribute an answer

Help Center > Privileges
Is it okay to use Stack Overflow as the support forum for a product or project?

Telling your users about your tags

Question Maintenance

  • updating old questions with new information
  • product renaming
  • broken links, new content

Is there any sandbox test account for SquareUp?

Retagging

square

square api

[square-connect]

Google Alerts

Editing

  • SEO
  • Spelling & grammar
  • Code formatting, snippets
  • Focused Questions
Actually answering your questions

Built-in email notifications

Stack Exchange tag sets Email notifications for new questions matching specific tags

RSS feeds










https://api.stackexchange.com/

A better slack integration

How to Monitor Stack Overflow Activity in Slack
Data Science Time!!!

Number of Questions

Response Time

Median time to first answer by month & tag
Median time to first answer by tag/week Time to first Action for each question/tag/week

Median Time to First Answer for a tag/all time

Question Views

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Most common words in your questions


Most popular words in posts for a specific tag
  • Compare question volume to related tags.
  • Competitive analysis
Advanced Topics
https://teratail.com/

Seeding your own questions/answers

Is seeding broad questions and self-answering with a form answer to create a FAQ acceptable?

Bounties

Thank you!