Engine of forum

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 08/21/2018 10:18 AM, Seb wrote:
> 
> There are a few good points to move D.learn to Stack Overflow and that's 
> actually one thing that we have talked about a few times and somehow 
> never has happened. In the D survey there was a 2:1 "consensus" for 
> StackOverflow.

Eeew, god no. That would be HORRIBLE.

I've used StackOverflow. It's NOT a place for asking and answering 
questions. It's a place where anybody who fancies themself a control 
freak can come play out their hall-monitor/web-moderator fantasies all 
while earning points toward nifty stickers(!!!) and leveling-up their 
self-righteousness stats to earn bigger and better tools for exerting 
control over others.

I'm not even joking: StackOverflow might not have intended it, but it 
really IS more of a mixed-reality social MMO than a Q&A tool. I'm amazed 
that anyone who's tried it can still take it seriously.

In D.learn: People post questions. Other people post answers. Done.

In StackOverflow: Attempts to ask/answer regularly just get 
shame-slapped into oblivion by any one of the hundreds (thousands?) of 
members mostly just there to play the meta-game.