Re: lua.stackexchange.com?

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

I suppose I think there is room for both. Something like stack exchange can decrease the repetition (how many more local vs global threads will we see?). But at the same time it's harder to get the inter-activity that the mail list gives.

Why not start stack exchange and see if it takes off?

--Tim

On Apr 27, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> 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
>