Having listened to Joel and Jeff go on about the new StackOverflow ideas on their podcast, as well as in blog posts, it seems they're being utopian with the whole "people don't care about money or control, they just want to help" bit.
Running your own site and having control over how it works is important for a lot of people. If it weren't, geeks wouldn't self host WordPress for their personal blogs - they'd use Blogger or WordPress.com.
I'm glad that pg developed HN as a new, separate thing instead of rolling it out on Ning or whatever system was flavor of the day 1300 days ago. Likewise, it seems good that someone has a deep enough passion to set up MetaOptimize as a separate site, because they might actually bother to keep it up to date whereas SO might become the next Ning or Blogger over time.
No matter how bouncy SO's castle may be, true geeks like to build their own castles, even if they're not quite as shiny.
Running your own site and having control over how it works is important for a lot of people. If it weren't, geeks wouldn't self host WordPress for their personal blogs - they'd use Blogger or WordPress.com.
I'm glad that pg developed HN as a new, separate thing instead of rolling it out on Ning or whatever system was flavor of the day 1300 days ago. Likewise, it seems good that someone has a deep enough passion to set up MetaOptimize as a separate site, because they might actually bother to keep it up to date whereas SO might become the next Ning or Blogger over time.
No matter how bouncy SO's castle may be, true geeks like to build their own castles, even if they're not quite as shiny.