On 16 April 2010 09:26, Eric MALENFANT <Eric.Malenfant@sagem-interstar.com> wrote:
De : Scott McMurray
You "win" on Stack Overflow by refreshing like mad and putting in the barest of answers as quickly as possible to get "first post", then editing just enough to make it acceptable so others don't look at it since it already has an accepted answer. I doubt that system will find the kind of people we want as arbiters of the contents of Boost.
Just wondering: This is possibly more related to the size, variety, or "culture" of the "stackoverflow community" than a consequence of the system itself. Things may be different in an eventual "boostoverflow community".
That is possible, though I do think a non-negligible cause is the extrinsic motivation of the "reputation" number. On the mailing list there's no editing and no counters. Anyways, I do think that StackOverflow could be useful for some of the Boost-Users list content, but why would we want a separate one? It seems like there's already a "BoostOverflow" at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/boost that people are welcome to use for the kinds of questions that the StackOverflow interface is best at.