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Might be wrong, but to me the whole a question and answer format is different than topic of this thread. For Q&A related topics, obvious resource would be Stack

Might be wrong, but to me the whole a question and answer format is different than topic of this thread. For Q&A related topics, obvious resource would be Stack Exchange sites: https://stackexchange.com/sites https://stackexchange.com/sites Another being Google, but focusing on advanced search techniques.

PaulHoule 4y ago
There is an overlap between Q/A and discussion in my mind. In photography, for instance, I am sometimes trying to solve a specific problem but I am sometimes trying to learn about different approaches to a subject or I am out to buy strange things on Ebay at discounted prices (I have my eye on https://petapixel.com/2017/01/12/look-lytro-illum-camera-future-failed/ https://petapixel.com/2017/01/12/look-lytro-illum-camera-fut...) so I am interested in freewheeling discussions. I find the stackexchange paradigm to be broken. To do what I want to do on those sites (write a comment to call out a wrong answer) I'd have to spend a lot of time doing meaningless activities to get my karma up. Stackexchange in particular breaks the link between answering narrowly defined questions and open-ended discussions. In programming today the place where you most need insight from other people is in choosing libraries and frameworks, a discussion which is forbidden on stackoverflow. Mostly you're not allowed to ask questions where you couldn't get the answer from the documentation. It might be a struggle to find answers in the docs, but if you do so you will get the right answers. In SO you will get 30 answers, most of which are almost right -- the person who actually knows what they are talking about is disgusted by the SO game and the possibility that their right answer won't be recognized in a sea of wrong and almost right answers. There was a trade publication that licensed a copy of their software which was administered a little differently from others and realized pretty quick I could put up a good score by asking questions, I deliberately made myself the #2 user on the site but didn't aim for #1 because it didn't seem fair. I was curious about if you could do the same on stackoverflow and stackexchange but found that the scene is a bit different and you really can't.

PaulHoule 4y ago

There is an overlap between Q/A and discussion in my mind. In photography, for instance, I am sometimes trying to solve a specific problem but I am sometimes trying to learn about different approaches to a subject or I am out to buy strange things on Ebay at discounted prices (I have my eye on https://petapixel.com/2017/01/12/look-lytro-illum-camera-future-failed/ https://petapixel.com/2017/01/12/look-lytro-illum-camera-fut...) so I am interested in freewheeling discussions. I find the stackexchange paradigm to be broken. To do what I want to do on those sites (write a comment to call out a wrong answer) I'd have to spend a lot of time doing meaningless activities to get my karma up. Stackexchange in particular breaks the link between answering narrowly defined questions and open-ended discussions. In programming today the place where you most need insight from other people is in choosing libraries and frameworks, a discussion which is forbidden on stackoverflow. Mostly you're not allowed to ask questions where you couldn't get the answer from the documentation. It might be a struggle to find answers in the docs, but if you do so you will get the right answers. In SO you will get 30 answers, most of which are almost right -- the person who actually knows what they are talking about is disgusted by the SO game and the possibility that their right answer won't be recognized in a sea of wrong and almost right answers. There was a trade publication that licensed a copy of their software which was administered a little differently from others and realized pretty quick I could put up a good score by asking questions, I deliberately made myself the #2 user on the site but didn't aim for #1 because it didn't seem fair. I was curious about if you could do the same on stackoverflow and stackexchange but found that the scene is a bit different and you really can't.