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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