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If it doesn't fit what the site is structured for, why should it stick around? Aren't there plenty of other sites that can host it? Or is Stack Overflow the onl
by insteadof 13y ago
If it doesn't fit what the site is structured for, why should it stick around? Aren't there plenty of other sites that can host it? Or is Stack Overflow the only place to host code snips?
Do you have any example 400+ upvoted questions you can point to that aren't of the type "everybody bring out all the snippets you've been saving, this time we're putting on a show"?
- sergiotapia 13y agoIt's not about hosting code snips or even nice Markdown css styling. It's about have your question reach the most amount of knowledgable people. Stackoverflow is the best place for that, regardless of their [stupid] closing policies.
- mhaymo 13y agoBut the attention of the community is still finite. It's hard enough to get a moderately difficult question answered already, without opening the floodgates to lower-quality, easier-answered material. Opinion-based questions can be asked in reddit or something, where the time would not otherwise be more usefully spent.
- rhizome 13y agoIf it doesn't fit what the site is structured for It's not complicated: questions and answers. This is common in sitebuilding though: "so unique we are." Well, at the end of the day it's just posts and comments, so quit milkin' it. A question that receives answers fits, I don't know how you could say otherwise. However, this is all just a nice example of NIH Syndrome on SO's part, since these are lessons that have been learned by anybody who's hung out in a large IRC channel with kick/ban bots and arrogant ops, as well as being practiced on a web level for over 10 years by the likes of Metafilter. It also reads to me like they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the community part without the humanity, since people's irrelevancies in questions fall into more than the 6 (or however many) preset reasons for closure. This may be an incontrovertible attribute of SO: their "model" (as criticized above) does not allow for the community, "topical identity" if you will, they are seeking to impose themselves,.
- cruise02 13y ago> A question that receives answers fits, I don't know how you could say otherwise. Yeah, if you're trying to re-create Yahoo! Answers.
- rhizome 13y agoWhat do you mean?
- jackmaney 13y agoWhat I believe was meant is that the attribute of having an answer is not a sufficient reason to keep a question from being closed.
- rhizome 13y agoI think you/they missed my second paragraph, then. I'm not arguing against the concept of moderation, but simply that this is well-trod territory.
- jackmaney 13y agoNothing in your second paragraph refutes the fact that the Stack Exchange network of sites was never meant to be a repository for all answerable questions.