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The problem is philosophical. StackOverflow is what you get when you accept the proposition that there exists one canonical way to ask each possible question an
by dionidium 10y ago
The problem is philosophical. StackOverflow is what you get when you accept the proposition that there exists one canonical way to ask each possible question and that there's one corresponding best answer to it.
This approach was revolutionary, but, once accepted fully, leads to all sorts of silly limits on behavior.
- d0mine 10y agoIt is false. There may be multiple ways to ask a question. There may be multiple answers. StackOverflow does not delete duplicate questions i.e., there is a builtin support for asking the exact same question multiple times in various ways. The system supports more than one answer. The accepted answer is not necessarily the best answer (whatever it means) — try http://stackoverflow.com/tour http://stackoverflow.com/tour In contrast, there is a single article per title per language on Wikipedia.
- vonmoltke 10y ago> StackOverflow does not delete duplicate questions i.e., there is a builtin support for asking the exact same question multiple times in various ways. The second does not follow from the first, because SO does lock duplicate questions and prevent people from answering.
- d0mine 10y agoYes. Answers to the same question are collected in a single place i.e., it provides the best of both worlds: - it allows to ask the same question using different ways (different people may use different vocabularies to express the exact same problem) - the answers are not scattered -- they can be updated and improved in a single place.