Hi,
On 02/27/12 09:45, Erik Johansson wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:02, Frederik Ramm<frede...@remote.org> wrote:
I [..] remove comments[..] if someone writes: "Why does<x>
happen? I think that those who allow this to happen are really
stupid!"
....
This medium is less
helpful if the reader has to browse 25 answers to get the whole
picture!
I'm hoping you really are only referring to opinions like "this
project suxxors!!!!", and questions with 10 answers with variants of
saying that I should use Maperitive to render stuff. Because those
obviously can be deleted.
Yes, but also I think that it would be good to treat this less like a
forum where everyone says something, and more like a wiki where everyone
contributes to one good article.
For example, if someone asks a question and someone else answers "there
are two ways to do this, a) ..., or b) ...", and then someone adds
another answer that shows a third useful solution. Now you have a
contradiction; the first answer is obviously not (fully) correct because
there are not (only) two solutions but three; and ideally, the first
answer should simply be amended to read "there are three ways to do
this", and include the new answer as option c).
The reason why I don't normally do this is that whenever you upvote an
answer, the original author of the answer gets "karma points", and if I
were to e.g. merge your answer into mine in the manner described above,
then *I* would get all the credit for it and that would be unfair.
Still, a reader would usually profit from one coherent answer, instead
of 10 individual "you could also ..." answers.
(The whole platform is built according to that ideal - the concept that
you can "accept" one, but only one, answer is a sign of that.)
Bye
Frederik
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