Wow, on HN again. While I'm proud of that answer, the real bummer was that I edited it too many times (started with a tiny answer and filled it in from there) and it became Community Wiki. I got all of 4 or 5 upvotes before it went CW, so got 40-50 rep out of it instead of the 5290 I would've gotten otherwise. Glad people have found it useful, though.
From the end of the SO answer: "I'm glad this post has been helpful, and I'm hoping I can get off my arse and finish up my book on the subject by the end of the year/early next year."
I am, but it's been slow going. Between a new job and a social life, I have little free time and energy to work on it. At this point, it'd be tough to get it done this year.
Somewhat OT, but I never understood why editing your own answer on SO would cause it to go community wiki. If you're improving your own answer, shouldn't you get the rep for it?
I can understand how others' significant edits would cause it to go CW, though.
If it makes you feel any better, StackOverflow caps your rep gains to 300 per day, so assuming that most of those upvotes occurred in bursts when the question was first answered and then at subsequent times when it was linked to from elsewhere, you probably wouldn't have gotten quite that much.
