The C# Language Forum is ?
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If you go and look at the first thirty "questions," you'll see that most of them are heavily down-voted, many falling into the category of requests-for-code. I haven't the stamina (or eyesight) to examine a larger sample. If this is the current state of the C# forum, why can't we re-route these questionable questions to QA, where, hopefully, they'll get soon removed, or better yet, kill them pronto ? I can't see the value of a C# forum full of OT posts, and the formulaic replies often made to them. cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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If you go and look at the first thirty "questions," you'll see that most of them are heavily down-voted, many falling into the category of requests-for-code. I haven't the stamina (or eyesight) to examine a larger sample. If this is the current state of the C# forum, why can't we re-route these questionable questions to QA, where, hopefully, they'll get soon removed, or better yet, kill them pronto ? I can't see the value of a C# forum full of OT posts, and the formulaic replies often made to them. cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
So is it time to kill the programming forums?
cheers Chris Maunder
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So is it time to kill the programming forums?
cheers Chris Maunder
I don't think so; they still have a purpose. They provide a better "discussion" format than is possible (or at least easy to maintain) in QA which is a lot more "solution" orientated. It only becomes a problem when students post their homework, or our ex-resident Help Vampire finds something new. What it needs is better users ... :sigh:
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So is it time to kill the programming forums?
cheers Chris Maunder
Hi, Chris, I think some strategy short of murder is worth bandying about :) Maybe a bit of forensics, first ? 1. is my current perception of a C# forum "clogged up" with OT static accurate ? 2. what's happening that down-voted messages are being removed quicker on QA than on the C# forum ? is that perception accurate ? 3. have we reached a point where discussion of language issues are less in demand ? 4. if posts were moved to QA, would that damage our tender young crop of future savants ? 5. better to remove heavily down-voted posts ? best wishes, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I don't think so; they still have a purpose. They provide a better "discussion" format than is possible (or at least easy to maintain) in QA which is a lot more "solution" orientated. It only becomes a problem when students post their homework, or our ex-resident Help Vampire finds something new. What it needs is better users ... :sigh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
What it needs is better users .
Isn't the primary issue here how to move, or kill, OT and 'gimme questions quickly ? cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
