What next for CP?

[thatraja]

Comics, Animated series, Films based Bob :bob:

thatraja

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[Lost User]

Could definitely do with better question moderation - a lot of the questions asked are barely (and often not) legible. StackOveflow seems to be more pro-active in this area; I'd like to see the same thing here :) E.g. How do I update with a msg while update..[^]

[Lost User]

More people back in the programming forums. (I don't know how, just make it happen)

[DaveAuld]

Removing Q&A would achieve that!

[thatraja]

That'd kill forums

thatraja

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[Lost User]

Why would it have that effect?

[Pete OHanlon]

Where do you think SA would head to boost his rep points?

[Pete OHanlon]

Okay, here's a thought for the articles. When an article is entered for a competition, it goes to a separate moderation queue rather than the main one. That way it's going to be a lot easier to prioritise your time reviewing articles.

[Lost User]

That other QA site perhaps, he'll fit right in.

[thatraja]

Newbies use Q/A section to post homework, send codez, urgentz type questions.

thatraja

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[Pete OHanlon]

One thing that would definitely help here is to expand the pool of people who can edit/move/remove messages. The pool is a lot greater in QA than it is in the forums.

[DaveAuld]

That would certainly help as the competition article often have different acceptable criteria.

[Keith Barrow]

Actually, Q&A killed the forums. They used to be very active, now people want the quick gimme codez option so they aren't really used very much.

Alberto Brandolini:

The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

[Keith Barrow]

DaveAuld wrote:

API

I believe it is being worked on. For at least 5 years to my knowledge. If only they had a group of developers willing to volunteer their time to help the communi... oh, wait....

Alberto Brandolini:

The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

[DaveAuld]

They could also host it in an open collaborative source repository, something like GitHub, maybe called it 'workspaces'....oh, wait :doh:

[thatraja]

But still I'm glad that forums not flooded with those type of questions

thatraja

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[Mycroft Holmes]

Why can't Q&A do a pop over/under to google with the title of the question entered as the search criteria.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

[Keith Barrow]

The problem is the forums aren't flooded in any type of questions. Do my homework style questions were fielded, and shot down. Newbie questions were asked, often these were shot down too - but less so than Q&A - and one person shooting down would be noticed a decent help often given. The forums were much more self-policing: Let's say someone tried the "See my near identical answer" thing so prevalent in Q&A just didn't happen. This behaviour would have been called out, and very visibly (as opposed the need to open the specific question) in the forums. A lot of the worst aspects of the Q&A simply weren't tolerated in the forums.] I'm not say the forums being active was a bed of roses - guilty of grouphthink and their were dingbats questions and answewrs, but the situation was (and is) much better there.

Alberto Brandolini:

The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

[DaveAuld]

Because the results set would be full of SO links :doh:

[Mycroft Holmes]

It's grey I tell you NOT blonde!

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH