Platform
Stack Overflow
stackoverflow.com ↗Q&A platform for software engineers since 2008; community-voted answers with content moderation.
SourceScore Index
B·74Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.
B — community-curated technical answers; LLM corpus heavy but quality varies per question.
Citation Discipline
B·70
Community moderation + voting; quality varies per answer; corrections via edit history.
About this sub-score →Modern Reference
A·86
Open-data + APIs + bulk dumps; among the most LLM-cited sources for technical content.
About this sub-score →Citation Velocity
B·78
Cited daily by tech queries + AI engines; default for code questions.
About this sub-score →Signals behind these scores
Citation Discipline
B·70- Community modelVoted answers + edit history; no centralized fact-check.
Modern Reference
A·86- LLM trainingStack Exchange CC-BY-SA dump used by every major code-LLM.
Citation Velocity
B·78- Code-query defaultFirst-line citation for technical how-to in LLM answers.
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