lua.stackexchange.com?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

Do you think we are ready for our own lua.stackexchange.com?
Would it be a good thing for the Lua community?

There are already many Lua questions in stackoverflow.com:
	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lua
	http://stackoverflow.com/tags/lua/topusers

To have our own site, lua.stackexchange.com, we'd need a critical mass.
But it would allow us to reduce the traffic in lua-l to announcements
and discussions about the design and future of Lua.

It seems to be that the stackexchange model succeeds quite well as both
a forum for questions and answers and an archive.

I see the following good points:

- it allows questions and answers to be stored and be publicly available
  with permanent links

- it is easy to edit questions and answers using rich text

- the vote scheme naturally filters bad and wrong answers

- the reputation scheme identifies trustable members of the community

- the comments scheme for questions and answers helps to reduce noise
  of parallel conversations

- there is no need to expose email addresses

- spam seems to be a very minor problem

The only not so good point is that you need to visit the site to see the
questions and answers. I think it is possible to receive notifications via
RSS and probably by email. I don't know whether there is a gateway to
and from mailing listings or just email.

--lhf