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I don’t know. My main gripe with StackOverflow is question getting closed for being opinion based or not worth debating. When constant debate is actually fun an

I don’t know. My main gripe with StackOverflow is question getting closed for being opinion based or not worth debating. When constant debate is actually fun and interesting. (And you don’t have to watch the threads if you don’t care.)

enitihas 7y ago
If you like constant debates and open ended questions, why not use Quora, or maybe even reddit.
- hartator 7y ago
  Well. Some very precise question is very open to debate. Like what’s package manager to use on Linux. They will be competing answers, votes, and answers that will be super interesting. At least to me.
  - enitihas 7y ago
    But stack overflow explicitly discourages such open ended questions, like what package manager to use. Any such discussion will be full of arguments and counter arguments, which is better suited for reddit anyways.
- sl1ck731 7y ago
  Has Quora gotten any better for content? Maybe I just don't use it right. It is on my list with Technet for sites that are entirely garbage. Every time I was led to Quora the answers were always 3 top comments of different companies advertising something.
  - enitihas 7y ago
    It has begun resembling the real world, just like any platform that gets too many users. But I doubt if you ask things like open ended debate questions you are not willing to see 1-2 ad answers, as long as there are other high quality answers. Many people are on quora posting high quality answers. Some examples: 1. Cliff Click 2. John Romero
posterboy 7y ago
Questions for the sole purpose of debate are discouraged and off the rule. if you want to have a chat, find a chat room. That does not mean that such questions never come through to reach not just an answer, but two or more trying to compete--which the voting system should be able to handel--or they are trying to mediate pretty much in unisono--which should be a comment to improve the question, or answer with a differentiated view on what the questionair got wrong and right. That also depends on the kind of stack. The more scientific, the more rigid the rules. The more liberally academic, the more people looking to practice their rhethorics.

enitihas 7y ago

If you like constant debates and open ended questions, why not use Quora, or maybe even reddit.

hartator 7y ago
Well. Some very precise question is very open to debate. Like what’s package manager to use on Linux. They will be competing answers, votes, and answers that will be super interesting. At least to me.
- enitihas 7y ago
  But stack overflow explicitly discourages such open ended questions, like what package manager to use. Any such discussion will be full of arguments and counter arguments, which is better suited for reddit anyways.
sl1ck731 7y ago
Has Quora gotten any better for content? Maybe I just don't use it right. It is on my list with Technet for sites that are entirely garbage. Every time I was led to Quora the answers were always 3 top comments of different companies advertising something.
- enitihas 7y ago
  It has begun resembling the real world, just like any platform that gets too many users. But I doubt if you ask things like open ended debate questions you are not willing to see 1-2 ad answers, as long as there are other high quality answers. Many people are on quora posting high quality answers. Some examples: 1. Cliff Click 2. John Romero

posterboy 7y ago

Questions for the sole purpose of debate are discouraged and off the rule. if you want to have a chat, find a chat room. That does not mean that such questions never come through to reach not just an answer, but two or more trying to compete--which the voting system should be able to handel--or they are trying to mediate pretty much in unisono--which should be a comment to improve the question, or answer with a differentiated view on what the questionair got wrong and right. That also depends on the kind of stack. The more scientific, the more rigid the rules. The more liberally academic, the more people looking to practice their rhethorics.