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"CJM" wrote
>I don't know if any of you are techies, and might therefore come across the 
>likes of StackOverflow, ServerFault and SuperUser... but the StackExchange 
>system has now been turned creating help forums for many other subjects, 
>including gaming.... so they now have the following sites:

> http://gaming.stackexchange.com/
> http://rpg.stackexchange.com/
> http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/

> We aware: this a 'factual' question and answer sites, so (unlike USENET) 
> discussion as such is frowned upon....

That's an idiotic statement.

I have been writing software professionally for twenty years and I've never 
seen a forum question that didn't elicit multiple answers. 

"Vince" <vi...@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
>> We aware: this a 'factual' question and answer sites, so (unlike USENET)
>> discussion as such is frowned upon....
>
> That's an idiotic statement.
>
> I have been writing software professionally for twenty years and I've
> never seen a forum question that didn't elicit multiple answers.

With a propensity to fly off the handle like that, it must have been a
testing time for your customers/employers.

A more reasoned person would have understood that a single paraphrased line
would be no substitute for going to the site(s) in question and reading
their FAQs, which would have given more fuller and more contextual answer,
or perhaps even responding to a post with a question asking for
clarification.

Seeing as you did (not) ask so nicely, I'll explain myself a bit better. You
are asked to "avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative or
require extended discussion". "This is not a discussion board, this is a
place for questions that can be answered."

Clearly different people have different opinions on the best answer to a
given question, and some debate is necessary, but it's not a place to 'wax
lyrical' as you might choose to do here. In general, the quality of an
answer is indicated by upvoting. Or downvoting, of course.

It's also partially moderated, and substantially self-moderating, so
comments like "That's an idiotic statement" don't do down too well.

It's probably not your kind of place.
 

CJM wrote:
> 
> "Vince" <vi...@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:hZ6go.14849$Fv5.4596@newsfe15.ams2...
>>
>>> We aware: this a 'factual' question and answer sites, so (unlike USENET)
>>> discussion as such is frowned upon....
>>
>> That's an idiotic statement.
>>
>> I have been writing software professionally for twenty years and I've
>> never seen a forum question that didn't elicit multiple answers.
> 

> Seeing as you did (not) ask so nicely, I'll explain myself a bit better. 
> You
> are asked to "avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative or

Then why didn't you say so, and why should we be obligated to go to some 
website we never heard of for clarification of your misleading 
description, especially with its negative connotations.

> 
> It's probably not your kind of place.
> 

Mine neither.

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On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 13:14:18 +0100, "CJM"
<cjmu...@gmail.removethis.com> wrote:

> I don't know if any of you are techies, and might therefore come across the 
> likes of StackOverflow, ServerFault and SuperUser... but the StackExchange 
> system has now been turned creating help forums for many other subjects, 
> including gaming.... so they now have the following sites:
> 
> http://gaming.stackexchange.com/
> http://rpg.stackexchange.com/
> http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/
> 
> We aware: this a 'factual' question and answer sites, so (unlike USENET) 
> discussion as such is frowned upon.... 


OK, nice. I added "gaming" & "rpg" to my Favorites.

ONE caution:

The sites use OpenID which can use Facebook and other social-sites for
logon authorization, required if you want to POST questions.

Users may want to consider privacy issues using the StackExchange
sites. The issue is, do you WANT your Facebook, Tweeter, or other
information on OpenID?

Example, one of the oldest *privacy protection* protocols is NOT to
use your real name.

"Don Freeman" <free...@cosmoslair.com> wrote in message 
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>>
>
>> Seeing as you did (not) ask so nicely, I'll explain myself a bit better. 
>> You
>> are asked to "avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative 
>> or
>
> Then why didn't you say so, and why should we be obligated to go to some 
> website we never heard of for clarification of your misleading 
> description, especially with its negative connotations.
>

Go to the site/don't go to the site...

Didn't I sell it to you? That's because I wasn't trying to. It was a brief 
heads-up because it might be of interest to people here. I have no other 
connection to them than being a member of one or more Stackexchange sites. I 
don't care whether you visit or not, or whether you agree with the premise 
or the rules, whether you like my turn of phrase or not. Visit it, or don't 
visit it. It's that simple.

Never heard of it? That's why I posted here. If notbody tells you about 
these places, how are you supposed to find out?

What? Did you expect a 5000 word treatise on the features of these services 
before you'd contemplate using google to check-up on the sites to 
reassure-yourself, and actually visiting the site themselves?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=stack+exchange

Look, it's a question and answer site following a very successful format (it 
appears), and not yet another discussion forum. Don't like it? Fine. Don't 
go there.

If you do fancy asking a question about a particular computer game, or 
perhaps if you have a question about RPG games, or web 
design/GIS/electronics & robotics/science fiction/graphic design/etc... then 
check out Stack Exchange.

You won't get to be as argumentative and obnoxious as you are on here, but 
you might find something helpful or interesting. Or are these the negative 
connotations you were fearing?

>>
>> It's probably not your kind of place.
>>
>
> Mine neither.
>

Somebody call a waaaaahmbulance....!

 

"Garrett" <teck...@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message 
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> ONE caution:
>
> The sites use OpenID which can use Facebook and other social-sites for
> logon authorization, required if you want to POST questions.
>

No, it uses OpenID and you can use Facebook as your OpenID provider (or 
google, yahoo, AOL, verisign, blogger, wordpress etc...).

> Users may want to consider privacy issues using the StackExchange
> sites. The issue is, do you WANT your Facebook, Tweeter, or other
> information on OpenID?

Facebook is the (potential) privacy issue. There are no OpenID privacy 
issues whatsoever -it's simply an open authentication standard. So use an 
OpenID provider that you trust. In my book, that means not Facebook.

 

CJM wrote:
> 
> Somebody call a waaaaahmbulance....!
> 

So.  That's the quality and cleverness of the posts we are to expect?

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