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I agree with your general point about avoiding centralized data, but StackExchange definitely stands as unique since all of its posts are in the creative common
by GuestHNUser 5y ago
I agree with your general point about avoiding centralized data, but StackExchange definitely stands as unique since all of its posts are in the creative commons. Due to that, I think SE is one of the few bastions for sharing knowledge since it doesn't own its users answers.
Not saying that SE is the end all be all of QA forums, just that it's a much better centralized system than you are giving it credit.
- duckmysick 5y agoStack Exchange - or more precisely their moderators and power users - gets to decide which content is allowed and which isn't. For example which questions are marked duplicate (even if they aren't) or which questions are off-topic (even if it's not clear). And yes, theoretically the community can change the guidelines. But at one point the organizational inertia is so big, the proposition becomes "take or leave it". And it's not just Stack Exchange that has this problem. Wikipedia too.