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In my opinion, it really depends on the subject matter at hand. StackOverflow only works because it removes discussion and forces people to write questions with
by striking 12y ago
In my opinion, it really depends on the subject matter at hand. StackOverflow only works because it removes discussion and forces people to write questions with single, factual answers. [1]
What subject matter do you wish to approach?
[1]: http://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-construction-kit/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-constructio... (Find "At Stack Exchange,")
- KajMagnus 12y agoThat's an interesting point of view, to think about what things to discourage / remove / hide, rather than what to show. Thanks for the link to Discourse — I haven't noticed the words "you must suppress discussion" until now when you pointed them out. The only ways I could think of implementing that, was by collapsing threads with relatively few upvotes, or that people flag as off-topic. Hmm..., S.E. actually does it also via making comments smaller, via community guidelines and by removing formatting. I wonder if that can make sense in forum software. Your mentioning "suppressing discussion" made me think about something, namely removing the discussion completely: collapsing long sub threads, and replacing them with auto generated summaries of the most interesting things therein, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8581040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8581040 Actually I don't understand "What subject matter do you wish to approach" (not a native English speaker). Could you please rephrase?