Network Engineering Q&A Site Launched 29
Hamburg writes "Stack Exchange launched a new site for network engineers. It's in question and answer style, content is tagged for filtering and subscribing to topics. A voting system supports quality of posts, leading to so called reputation scores which determine moderation capabilities of the users. It's now 18 days in beta, at this early stage users decide which way it will go, from quality and kind of contributions up to the future design of the site. People there discuss mainly professional subjects such as the best dual-provider design for the enterprise, when to choose fiber instead of copper cabling, and efficient ways for troubleshooting switching loops."
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US English meaning of the word is not the same as the European. Are you by any chance European..?
what's the us meaning then? just the guy who keeps the engine running?
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It's a slashvertizement. Real news for nerds would have mentioned the opening of the D&D questions site, but instead we get some boring corporate network crap because those guys are the ones who can pay to market it.
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only slightly different CSS
Not only. If you take the math.stackexchange.com [stackexchange.com] you see that they put an extra effort to have mathematical equations displayed properly on the site.
ah yes (Score:2)
Not what it used to be (Score:2)
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Stackoverflow is turning into Wikipedia. There are a lot of dickheads there who care for nothing but the process.
You mention open-ended questions. Lots of open-ended questions from the early days have been recently closed because "it might lead to extended discussion and other bad things yada, yada, yada". Except in the four years the question was there none of these bad things happened. So why close it now? Oh yeah, because rules and processes matter more than having useful answers to useful questions
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Yep, I closed my account there. This new site will simply be a replication of any router manuals you may have laying around. It will deliberately go out of its way to discourage any form of discussion or even the documenting of useful general techniques, because it will be too 'open ended'.
I hate SO with a passion and I used to enjoy it a lot. Good luck to them with the new arm though.
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Ah. We seem to have a StackExchange Moderator in our midst.
I note that, just like the mods that delete 4 year-old, highly viewed/rated posts, this one chooses to act as an AC.
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I'm not anywhere near being a SE moderator, and quite frankly I wouldn't want to given the work it involves. I'm just a user who appreciates the quality of the answers. Not everyone has an agenda, stop being so stupidly paranoid.
Re: Not what it used to be (Score:1)
The obvious question beccons: "where is the replacement".
I've certainly seen this trend and been filled with rage and anger after a great/helpful question was closed for being open ended. I believe it had 4 possible resolutions based on my knowledge of the subject matter and I would have loved to have seen those 4 answers posted.
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Agreed. I haven't closed my account, but I stopped contributing months ago.
Some of the well-asked open ended questions led to answers that were useful and thought provoking. Now it's turned into "How do I add 2+2 in <insert language>?".
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Maybe they are grooming it to become a source fo AI learning material. Next Watson's knowledge repository? :D
Why dont they just add "discussion" tag to some posts and leave them open ended?
StackOverflow vs Programmers (Score:4, Informative)
The place for open ended question is not SO. [stackexchange.com]
How to choose between SO and Programmers - http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82988/choosing-between-stack-overflow-and-programmers-stack-exchange [stackoverflow.com]
I thought I disabled advertising. (Score:1)