On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Stas Sușcov <s...@nerd.ro> wrote: > * The data belongs to the guys behind SE
This is patently false. It's licensed CC-by-SA 3.0 http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/changes-to-stack-exchange/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/ > My advice is, if you want to start a new community around SE, do that, > but stop asking people to help you without explaining them all the pros > and cons of this action. I did explain the pros. If you want a deeper explanation, read my or Iain's blog posts. I don't see any cons here. If it works for some people, fantastic! We've got a new way to help even more people. If it doesn't work for some people, that's okay. They can still use Ubuntu Forums, Launchpad Answers, or whatever suits them best. > * It has nothing to do with ubuntu as a community That's fairly vague, can you elaborate on what you mean? > What I would really like to see, is a new initiative to > rebuild/organize/simplify existing ubuntu forums, instead of trying to > get people on SE. A forums website is an ill fit for a Q&A workflow. You have to manually mark a thread as solved, the replies to a thread are organized by date, rather than usefulness, there's no obvious way to find unanswered questions, there's no rewards system for a good answer, etc, etc, etc. You could bolt all of these things onto a forums website, but then you'd have a Q&A site, or some Frankenstein tool that tries to be both while sacrificing simplicity and thus ease of use. Stack Exchange is here today and it works extraordinarily well because it was specifically designed for the use case we're looking to fill. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
