There comes a point where a resource like php has reached the full breadth of what it can cover within the constraints of what Stack Overflow considers to be on topic. What remains is a lot of noise throwing itself at the wall, with a tiny bit of signal occasionally emerging and bringing more dep...

TL;DR Noticed your rep change? It’s because we’re deploying an update to the rep in the Documentation Beta as was announced a couple weeks ago. The biggest change: there is now a “minor” contributor level where example upvotes give you +1 instead of +5. Read on for the nitty gritty of how Doc...

Yes. Indeed, this is the dirty little secret of SO... As you're well aware, the question/answer ratio for human beings is fixed at 283/7. It is physically impossible for anyone to answer more than seven questions without having first asked at least 283. Therefore, any user with a smaller ratio i...