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I hope everyone noticed this Javascript question:
http://www.javascriptquestions.com/

Cheating will not be allowed, nor do we see any need to spell out what cheating is. You all have the common sense to know what amounts to cheating.
One of our experts had the power to vote. They created a new account. The new account answered questions, and with the other account the user [...]

The last few months I’ve been working a contract at Shermans Travel. We have been rebuilding the site, and changing the design. The old site was done with CakePHP, the new site is done with Ruby On Rails. My contract took me away from TMA, but the contract ends on December 22nd. I will be [...]

I am pleased to see so many people voting. I am also pleased when experts take the time to explain their votes. I think the whole community is healthier when the experts take responsibility for the outcomes. I plan to put more of the operations of the site under the control of expert voting.

Two months ago it was difficult to get anyone to vote. Sometimes only 3 or 4 experts would vote all month. They would only vote 5 or 6 times a month. I think the highest number I ever saw was 12 votes in one month. Then we started offering a small incentive for voting: triple [...]

We are now giving out an award for any one of the experts who gets one of the 5 top voted answers on the site, during the last 30 days. The icon appears on an experts profile page. For instance, here is Gabriel Reguly’s profile page (he has won all 4 of the awards that [...]

I am pleased to say that WP Questions has crossed the $30,000 mark. It has also paid out over $3,000 from the Community Pot. The site crossed the $20,000 milestone in May and it hit the $10,000 mark 1 year ago, in November of 2010.

I’m doing some client work. Their old site was built with PHP, but the new site is being built with Ruby On Rails. I am fairly new to Rails. I have a question about how to get the data out of the WordPress blog. More details here:
http://www.tutorruby.com/question/show/id/3245

I use my own sites frequently, as a customer, so I can appreciate some of the frustration that Jonathan van Clute expresses in his refund request:
While I found the ensuing discussion interesting, I came to wpquestions.com specifically for the statement made by the founder:
“When I am facing a tight deadline, I do not want [...]

Those of you in Mexico might be interested to know that Luis Abarca is teaching WordPress courses. These are taught on Saturdays, running through late November and into December.