Better forum

deed none at none.none
Thu Dec 6 15:13:18 PST 2012


On Thursday, 6 December 2012 at 22:59:04 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
> On 12/06/2012 04:43 PM, deed wrote:
>>>> Someone would have to set up the subject structure under 
>>>> D.Learn. Then a
>>>> possibly required input field (thinking web interface) could 
>>>> specify the
>>>> subject the question belongs to. A voting system would then 
>>>> sort the
>>>> responses after relevance and usefulness. It would help 
>>>> building useful,
>>>> easy accessible and comprehensive documentation.
>>>>
>>>> Also, language and library debates could be tagged by 
>>>> subject and the
>>>> posts could be rated by votes in order to organize and 
>>>> extract key
>>>> points out of long threads.
>>>
>>> ....So basically Stack Exchange.
>>>
>>> Why not simply point people to stackoverflow tag [d]?
>>
>> Since this is the D site and lots of useful information is 
>> exchanged
>> here and expected to be found here.
>
> This is the internet.  There is no functional difference 
> between having forums.dlang.org redirect to Stack Exchange. 
> (aside from legality, of course.) "Here" and "there" are 
> directional concepts that do not translate well.
>
> If there is a link on dlang.org that points to 
> stackexchange.com/d (or whatever format they use) then "there" 
> is suddenly "here".
>
> This feels very NIH-ish.
>>
>>> The infrastructure is already in place for pretty much 
>>> exactly what
>>> you are talking about, and several of the people here have 
>>> accounts
>>> there.

My point is not how this is implemented, just that it could be 
useful to enable sorting of the posts, mainly with D.Learn in 
mind.


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