Quick Answer Limit
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Have you considered imposing a limit on the number of answers by the same person to the same quick question? Or perhaps a diversion to a page that suggests editing the question / existing answer rather than adding a new answer? Some of these questions develop into dialogs that don't really fit this format. One question I've seen has acquired 60 quick answers, mostly split between 2 people. I have no objections to the dialogs, it just doesn't work with the way Quick answers are set up.
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Have you considered imposing a limit on the number of answers by the same person to the same quick question? Or perhaps a diversion to a page that suggests editing the question / existing answer rather than adding a new answer? Some of these questions develop into dialogs that don't really fit this format. One question I've seen has acquired 60 quick answers, mostly split between 2 people. I have no objections to the dialogs, it just doesn't work with the way Quick answers are set up.
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I read one of the suggestions already in progress for something like this: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/3395399/Re-Quick-Answers-problem.aspx[^] Once something like this is implemented, hopefully we won't face such issues. Though CP can still put some kind of check as suggested by you as might be someone still uses the same mode as now to discuss out!
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Have you considered imposing a limit on the number of answers by the same person to the same quick question? Or perhaps a diversion to a page that suggests editing the question / existing answer rather than adding a new answer? Some of these questions develop into dialogs that don't really fit this format. One question I've seen has acquired 60 quick answers, mostly split between 2 people. I have no objections to the dialogs, it just doesn't work with the way Quick answers are set up.
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Avi Berger wrote:
Some of these questions develop into dialogs that don't really fit this format.
It is the other way around, the format provided does not fit well with the dialogs and discussions that often emerge naturally. The format needs to be improved, i.e. brought closer to what it is in the programming forums. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that.
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Have you considered imposing a limit on the number of answers by the same person to the same quick question? Or perhaps a diversion to a page that suggests editing the question / existing answer rather than adding a new answer? Some of these questions develop into dialogs that don't really fit this format. One question I've seen has acquired 60 quick answers, mostly split between 2 people. I have no objections to the dialogs, it just doesn't work with the way Quick answers are set up.
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As others have said: we need to rework it a little.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Avi Berger wrote:
Some of these questions develop into dialogs that don't really fit this format.
It is the other way around, the format provided does not fit well with the dialogs and discussions that often emerge naturally. The format needs to be improved, i.e. brought closer to what it is in the programming forums. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that.
I won't disagree with you. I like the programming forums. Quick answers isn't yet fitting its use. My other thought was some moderator function for quick questions that didn't fit the mold - perhaps to move it to a forum thread or to change it to a "developer dialog" that would fix the messages in order rather than letting them bounce around by rating. From the link another person provided, it sounds like the design is headed to the format that Stack Overflow uses.
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