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Do users earn reputation for voting to close off-topic questions? Maybe they have poorly incentivized their users to close questions rather than answer them.

Do users earn reputation for voting to close off-topic questions? Maybe they have poorly incentivized their users to close questions rather than answer them. Why do people put up with this? Because there's not a better option. Want to make one?

ngBlaster 12y ago
Stack Exchange could be much better. They have created a good model, however the knowledge needs to be aggregated back into a documentation format, that is browsable. Documentation + Q&A together = Awesomeness.
- mlewisTW 12y ago
  What do you mean documentation + question and answer? Like a wiki with Q&A?
- 8_hours_ago 12y ago
  I completely agree that Documentation + Q&A together = Awesomeness. My first programming language was PHP, which I self taught to myself using only the online documentation. Without the comments at the bottom of every page of documentation, the learning process would have taken a lot longer. I haven't looked at the PHP documentation in years, but I hope that the discussions still exist. I'm surprised that more documentation doesn't have the same kind of commenting system, or every a better one... from what I can remember the discussions on the PHP documentation were single threaded and didn't have any user moderation. I also recall people commenting and saying "Don't listen to Bob's comment above! It's completely wrong!! Here's how you do it: ..." followed by: "Steve has it almost correct, but you should really use X instead of Y.", followed by 10 more comments with no real conclusion on how to "correctly" query a mysql database. If there was a Stack Exchange type of Q&A that was embedded on each individual page of documentation, that might be very useful.
  - mlewisTW 12y ago
    In due time, this will exist. The interactive documentation (a wiki on steroids) will merge many existing systems into one platform that is unparalleled. I plan to make this system, I just need to figure out where to start, and organize a team.

ngBlaster 12y ago

Stack Exchange could be much better. They have created a good model, however the knowledge needs to be aggregated back into a documentation format, that is browsable. Documentation + Q&A together = Awesomeness.

mlewisTW 12y ago
What do you mean documentation + question and answer? Like a wiki with Q&A?
8_hours_ago 12y ago
I completely agree that Documentation + Q&A together = Awesomeness. My first programming language was PHP, which I self taught to myself using only the online documentation. Without the comments at the bottom of every page of documentation, the learning process would have taken a lot longer. I haven't looked at the PHP documentation in years, but I hope that the discussions still exist. I'm surprised that more documentation doesn't have the same kind of commenting system, or every a better one... from what I can remember the discussions on the PHP documentation were single threaded and didn't have any user moderation. I also recall people commenting and saying "Don't listen to Bob's comment above! It's completely wrong!! Here's how you do it: ..." followed by: "Steve has it almost correct, but you should really use X instead of Y.", followed by 10 more comments with no real conclusion on how to "correctly" query a mysql database. If there was a Stack Exchange type of Q&A that was embedded on each individual page of documentation, that might be very useful.
- mlewisTW 12y ago
  In due time, this will exist. The interactive documentation (a wiki on steroids) will merge many existing systems into one platform that is unparalleled. I plan to make this system, I just need to figure out where to start, and organize a team.