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You think QnA isn't a discussion? Of course it's a discussion site.

• SCdF 14y ago
  You may think QnA == discussion, but the mods and general culture of the site say otherwise. It's unfortunate, and the SE sites are notorious for being strict to the point of depression, but that's a discussion for another time.
• sofal 14y ago
  At Stack Exchange, one of the tricky things we learned about Q&A is that if your goal is to have an excellent signal to noise ratio, you must suppress discussion. Stack Exchange only supports the absolute minimum amount of discussion necessary to produce great questions and great answers. That's why answers get constantly re-ordered by votes, that's why comments have limited formatting and length and only a few display, and so forth. Almost every design decision we made was informed by our desire to push discussion down, to inhibit it in every way we could. Spare us the long-winded diatribe, just answer the damn question already. - Jeff Atwood