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[Lie Ryan]

On 06/05/10 06:57, John Bokma wrote:
> Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 06/04/10 11:56, John Bokma wrote:
>>> Phlip <phlip2005 at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Jun 3, 3:20 pm, geremy condra <debat... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> You mean like how I never get answers, to my super-easy GED-level
>>>>>> questions, here??!
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree. This proves conclusively that a web forum is the right
>>>>> place for you.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, so you feel up to my "xsl for xmlrunner.py" question?
>>>
>>> Just jumping in the middle, but if you're looking for a web based forum
>>> where you can ask questions, check out Stack Overflow (and sister sites,
>>> depending on your question). I've noticed over the last couple of months
>>> that often things I google for, are answered on Stack Overflow. One
>>> thing that would've been nice to have on Usenet that I like is the
>>> ability to vote answers up or down. I think Usenet would've been a bit
>>> better with that option.
>>
>> Probably. A vote up/down feature tend to highlight popular problems, but
>> it also buries less popular problems that might have perfectly good
>> answers.
> 
> Unless I misunderstand, the voting is for the replies, not for the
> questions. Or maybe the questions can be promoted to a queue, no
> idea. But that's not that different from questions posted to Usenet. The
> popular ones are asked often, the less popular ones once in a while, and
> might also not result in solutions.

If you look at Stack Overflow, the highest voted questions are:

- Hidden Features of C#?
- What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
- What's your favorite "programmer" cartoon?
- What is your best programmer joke?
... and so on

many of them are nearly out-of-topic.



>> I think Google Groups have 5-star-rating system? You might want
>> to check on that.
> 
> Brrrr... no, I really prefer my Usenet via Gnus ;-).