On Jul 31, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Ross West <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> - Why are people finding LOPSA? Ultimately the majority come across looking
> for information to fix their current problem at hand, not because of looking
> for secondary education reasons (some do, but not that many). LOPSA could be
> providing the "why" to the solution they'll find at stack exchange/et al
> (lopsa can't compete with SE's size/backing). People will come back to find
> out why doing "x" in their software makes things work better though.
>
Stack Exchange communities (ServerFault et al) are based around an idea of
questions and assoc'd answers that can be definitively answered (i.e. No
opinions, just facts.) So there is a need for a place where one can ask "what's
the best ____" or "what are people's opinions on ___" which are basically just
asking for people's opinions, which is not a good question for an SE site.
Plenty of SE Q&A's have very involved "Why" explanations as a part of the
answers, so it's not like that's not happening on SE.
- Will
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