Why are stackoverflow people nice? [closed]

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Published on 2010-04-23T23:13:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 23:23 UTC
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Hi, all.

People on StackOverflow are always ready to help someone solve their problem, and I think I owe many thanks to all of those nice people.

Sometimes I wonder what makes people wanna help, wanna share what they know to each other, and what makes them not.

What do you think makes a community different so that ready-to-help just becomes a second nature of its members?

Is there something we can learn from StackOverflow that can help us build an excellent team with ready-to-help members?

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