Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum

[Shane Brandes]

Not that I have a lot to add on the subject, but it seems like stack
overflow type forums are really concerned with providing definitive
answers to questions. LilyPond is certainly not a static apparatus.
Things are in a constant state of flux, and maybe in most areas
minimal at this point, it is still often handier to simply ask afresh.
And it seems at least to me that people who really use the program,
begin to realize how to best attack specific usage problems after some
initial shock of novel exposure to LilyPond. Anyway I don't much care
one way or another how we arrive at helping the community use the
program to best advantage as long as it is helpful and does not serve
fragment the knowledge base which is really the end user even if the
documentation is some of the best i have ever run across for something
of this complexity.

Shane

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Rob Torop <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is an interesting discussion.  From the point of view of functionality,
> I agree with the "Stack Overflow" approach.  I find it hard to agree that
> one really can get as much out of the content that's been posted if it's
> shared in email digest form.  Certainly we have many powerful tools at our
> disposal to search and then sift through results, but at some point one has
> to concede that some newer ideas are pretty good.   No one wants to use
> archie to search for files anymore.
>
> I can see that one might object to the fact that stackoverflow exists to
> "monetize" the comments.  That is, a community of people (e.g. java
> programmers) uses it in exchange for seeing ads and perhaps having their
> posts used in some other way (not that I'm aware of this happening).  While
> one may or may not agree with this view, it ought not to be trivialized.  In
> this case, lilypond could have its own forum, based on GPL software like
> phpBB.
>
> On Wed Dec 24 2014 at 4:50:07 AM Helge Kruse <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> 2014-12-23 23:24 GMT+01:00 Johan Vromans <address@hidden>:
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe google 'VPN' ?
>>>
>> Sorry, don't understand how that helps anbody that is the exclusive club
>> of long lear readers of this list.
>> And VPN wouldn't help when I am off home. (I am one of the humans that
>> save power by switching PCs off when I don't use them).
>>
>> Regards
>> Helge
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