<story><title>A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A1144035+%5Bsql%5D+is%3Aanswer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deltree7</author><text>If you look at many people&amp;#x27;s reddit&amp;#x2F;usenet&amp;#x2F;facebook comment history, 23 entries per day isn&amp;#x27;t much</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Absolutely astonishing. Answering questions on a Q&amp;amp;A site may not on its own be heroic, but at this scale it’s hard to see it as any less.</text></item><item><author>EForEndeavour</author><text>This user Gordon Linoff hit one million reputation points on Stack Overflow in August 2020 (now one year later he&amp;#x27;s at 1.17M): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;400506&amp;#x2F;congratulations-for-reaching-a-million-gordon-linoff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;400506&amp;#x2F;congratulati...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This comes after an astonishing amount of 71,839 answers (and 0 questions!). He only joined in 2012, so that&amp;#x27;s an average of ~22.8 answers per day, every day, for the last 3144 days.To put perspective on the numbers, the second answerer on the site is Jon Skeet (our first millionaire) with 35K answers and then several others with 20k+</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wubin</author><text>Stack Exchange sites are not mere social media but more like an encyclopedia for specific topics. Answering as well as asking good questions requires extensive research and being mindful of future readers.&lt;p&gt;Sad to see SE contributors are compared with FB users.</text></comment>
<story><title>A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A1144035+%5Bsql%5D+is%3Aanswer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deltree7</author><text>If you look at many people&amp;#x27;s reddit&amp;#x2F;usenet&amp;#x2F;facebook comment history, 23 entries per day isn&amp;#x27;t much</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Absolutely astonishing. Answering questions on a Q&amp;amp;A site may not on its own be heroic, but at this scale it’s hard to see it as any less.</text></item><item><author>EForEndeavour</author><text>This user Gordon Linoff hit one million reputation points on Stack Overflow in August 2020 (now one year later he&amp;#x27;s at 1.17M): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;400506&amp;#x2F;congratulations-for-reaching-a-million-gordon-linoff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;400506&amp;#x2F;congratulati...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This comes after an astonishing amount of 71,839 answers (and 0 questions!). He only joined in 2012, so that&amp;#x27;s an average of ~22.8 answers per day, every day, for the last 3144 days.To put perspective on the numbers, the second answerer on the site is Jon Skeet (our first millionaire) with 35K answers and then several others with 20k+</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think we can equate the effort between answering technical questions and a comment on Reddit&amp;#x2F;Facebook.&lt;p&gt;While the occasional comment feels like work (e.g. citations), that isn&amp;#x27;t the norm so 23&amp;#x2F;day is meaningless.&lt;p&gt;Plus SO answers actually contribute positively to the world, whereas arguably social media comments do not.</text></comment>