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Discussion is the operative word. We only tolerate the minimum amount of discussion necessary to generate a better question and better answers (ideally in the f
by codinghorror 14y ago
Discussion is the operative word. We only tolerate the minimum amount of discussion necessary to generate a better question and better answers (ideally in the form of edits, not an endless stream of back and forth bickering that nobody will ever read), and no more.
If you're looking for a system that is designed to solicit discussion, Stack Exchange is not that. Not by a long shot. It's kind of the ... opposite of that.
- 4ad 14y agoHi Jeff! I really don't understand your posts regarding stack exchange here. Now and in many previous threads, you defend stack exchange by explaining the model, as if we didn't understand it. Everyone here complaining about the stack exchange network understands the model perfectly. We don't buy it! We don't like it! We don't believe in it. We complain about it because we believe stack exchange would be a better place if things were done differently. Reiterating the same old story over and over again accomplishes nothing.
- RegEx 14y agoSpeak for yourself.
- katbyte 14y agohmm then wouldn't it make sense to create a new stack-exchange site just for programming discussion and these type of questions that don't qualify for stack-overflow and move them there? stack-discussions or something? That way there would be a place for people to have these discussions while keeping it separate from stack-overflow?