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          Thank you very much for the information. I always found it strange that Stack Overflow and Experts Exchange are so similar, yet have such different business models.

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        For your consolation, many “answers” there are poor and just copy pasted from some open website anyway.

        You have to realize that their business model is marking questions as answered so that they can paywall access and lure people in. This might affect their quality control…

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          It’s ok, I found a solution to my problem soon afterwards and I think their solution is most likely just some general troubleshooting stuff anyway. I wonder if the original poster even ‘certified’ the solution at all or if that’s just part of the site’s paywall-scheme.

          What surprises me is that this site has been doing this for a long time apparently, I always thought putting paywalls in front of everything was more of a web3.0 thing.

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        No shock there. They have been that way since 2007. It is why the SpiceWorks community took so much.

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        I used to block search results from that site for this very reason. I don’t seem to ever get anything from them anymore though.

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          I had never heard of it before coming across this, this is the first time I’ve seen a paywall over what essentially is a forum post

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            They used to be very big and dominated search results for various technical information, before stackoverflow was a thing. It was so infuriating when the only possible clue to your niche bug was an experts-exchange paywall. And that happened a lot for way too long, after it went bankrupt and was bought by venture capitalists.

            I’m so very glad they’re mostly irrelevant now, they made the early 2000’s internet more painful than it needed to be.

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          How? 🙏 Years back there was an option is Google SERPs to do it… until they removed it 🙄