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This is funny. YOU are not wrong. But this answer is the wrong answer. I believe you fall in OPs category no 2. He’s asking for specific forums.. so, you know

This is funny. YOU are not wrong. But this answer is the wrong answer. I believe you fall in OPs category no 2. He’s asking for specific forums.. so, you know any? :)

xtracto 4y ago
Great reply! I know even news.ycombinator suffers from the issues the OP is listing. My take is that people participating in a public forum WANT to be read (including me with this post!), so you will find all sort of tangent conversations that have nothing to do with the main subject being discussed (like my very comment). What if, there was a StackOverflow like forum which, for a given question ONLY the person who asked could see all the answers, and only the answer they chose as correct/relevant/good would be the one published. That might decrease the noise in different conversations. It's one of the things I liked about the SlashDot moderation system: There was a "-1 Offtopic" flag. No matter how good or interesting your answer was, if it is offtopic it should be marked as such.
- shagie 4y ago
  > What if, there was a StackOverflow like forum which, for a given question ONLY the person who asked could see all the answers, and only the answer they chose as correct/relevant/good would be the one published. Stack Overflow has recognized that it has significant enough of a problem with accepted answers becoming outdated or just being plain wrong. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-answers-accepted-answer-is-now-unpinned-on-stack-overflow https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-ans... As an example, I point to https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/131397/why-use-try-finally-without-a-catch-clause/131400#131400 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1313... which for a long time had https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/131401 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/131401 as the accepted answer. > ... That might decrease the noise in different conversations. While it may, I fear (and having seen this in other places) that this would lead to some entitlement by the person asking the question seeing it as a personal help service instead of trying to build a repository of information. As someone who might answer, the related part would be "I don't want to be waisting my time duplicating work that someone else is doing."
wccrawford 4y ago
I think the OP's complaint can make sense on forums dedicated to answering question or solving problems. But this is a chat forum, and I think expecting every answer to relevant only to you is going to be very, very frustrating.

This is funny. YOU are not wrong. But this answer is the wrong answer. I believe you fall in OPs category no 2. He’s asking for specific forums.. so, you know any? :)

xtracto 4y ago

Great reply! I know even news.ycombinator suffers from the issues the OP is listing. My take is that people participating in a public forum WANT to be read (including me with this post!), so you will find all sort of tangent conversations that have nothing to do with the main subject being discussed (like my very comment). What if, there was a StackOverflow like forum which, for a given question ONLY the person who asked could see all the answers, and only the answer they chose as correct/relevant/good would be the one published. That might decrease the noise in different conversations. It's one of the things I liked about the SlashDot moderation system: There was a "-1 Offtopic" flag. No matter how good or interesting your answer was, if it is offtopic it should be marked as such.

shagie 4y ago
> What if, there was a StackOverflow like forum which, for a given question ONLY the person who asked could see all the answers, and only the answer they chose as correct/relevant/good would be the one published. Stack Overflow has recognized that it has significant enough of a problem with accepted answers becoming outdated or just being plain wrong. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-answers-accepted-answer-is-now-unpinned-on-stack-overflow https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-ans... As an example, I point to https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/131397/why-use-try-finally-without-a-catch-clause/131400#131400 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1313... which for a long time had https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/131401 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/131401 as the accepted answer. > ... That might decrease the noise in different conversations. While it may, I fear (and having seen this in other places) that this would lead to some entitlement by the person asking the question seeing it as a personal help service instead of trying to build a repository of information. As someone who might answer, the related part would be "I don't want to be waisting my time duplicating work that someone else is doing."

wccrawford 4y ago

I think the OP's complaint can make sense on forums dedicated to answering question or solving problems. But this is a chat forum, and I think expecting every answer to relevant only to you is going to be very, very frustrating.