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There are two functions stack overflow serves: 1. Answering questions people ask, q&a 2. Answering the questions of people stopping by looking for answers. T
by your-nanny 9y ago
There are two functions stack overflow serves:
1. Answering questions people ask, q&a
2. Answering the questions of people stopping by looking for answers.
The output of the former needn't directly be the input consumed by the latter. Bad questions can be tolerated in the former but are intolerable in the latter (noise).
Solution: A curated site of answers searchable by public drawn from the best of q and a from an internal site not indexable by google, etc.
- svick 8y agoExcept the great thing about SO is that if I have a super-obscure question, there is a good chance somebody already asked and answered it, so I can easily find the answer using Google. With your system, I would not be able to find the answer, because it wouldn't be in the curated list.
- your-nanny 8y agoCosts and benefits. But curation can simply be in the form of a sufficient number of upvotes