I'm one of the 83 people who have earned a silver Objective-C badge, whatever that means. Maybe I can get that on a shirt.
I was quite active on the site for about a year, and then my enthusiasm for answering questions suddenly dropped off. I don't know if the quality of questions got worse or what.
Sometimes I miss the old days of comp.lang.c++.moderated. Except the part about being a C++ programmer, that is.
If you're answering Objective-C questions, I think quality has definitely dropped off since the site started. These days it's about 50-50 whether a given question will boil down to "I don't understand why different instances of my UIViewController subclass are different objects." (Incidentally, my claim to SO fame is that I was the first person there to get a Ruby badge. I think that makes me king of the hipsters or something.)
I was quite active on the site for about a year, and then my enthusiasm for answering questions suddenly dropped off. I don't know if the quality of questions got worse or what.
Sometimes I miss the old days of comp.lang.c++.moderated. Except the part about being a C++ programmer, that is.