Stackoverflow rolls out "Chat with an expert"

Disregarding the current date, this is actually a great idea. Instant gratification for a fee. Yes, I'd pay for that.<p>They could recruit their experts from the community itself, limited to those over a certain karma threshold, adding further incentive to participate.

Oh FFS! This looked like a great product that seemed a natural monetization of their platform, that I would actually use and pay for. But its a fucking april fools joke connected to an eliza bot.<p>See also: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470437" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470437</a>

How funny: Just yesterday my friend (whom I met on StackOverflow months ago) mentioned that someone in the JavaScript chat channel was asking about some canvas tutorial, one that I just so happened to write. He summoned me so that the questioner could in fact, chat with an expert. (Or at least the author.)<p>The (none-too-interesting) transcript as proof:<p><a href="http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/8574110#8574110" rel="nofollow">http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/8574110#857...</a><p>Unfortunately the question wasn't particularly interesting and concerned an old tutorial. But I love SO because it really does let you chat with experts (Skeet being the most obvious), if not always in real time.

This would make a great feature but as an April Fool's joke it seems to fall a bit flat. On that link a couple users are being upset by it.<p>Maybe don't April Fool's your users with terrible service?

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools_Day" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools_Day</a>

If it means people posting their random code and asking others to debug it disappears from stackoverflow I'm all for it.<p>While their at it it would be nice if questions marked as duplicate were either deleted or at least had a pointer to the duplicate

This seems relevant, <a href="http://adviza.stackexchange.com/transcript/3H7fYEZJI0KJ" rel="nofollow">http://adviza.stackexchange.com/transcript/3H7fYEZJI0KJ</a>

This product would make Jon Skeet millionnaire.

More properly, towards the bottom, it should say "You must log in to LOOK at this question"...

Could i have my own robot in my own favor without setting up high performance server?