On 08/08/2012 11:55 AM, Jeff Sheltren wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: >> How would you define the difference in the Q&A style posts and a forum ? >> i.e what characteristics make a q&a interface not be a forum like setup >> ( and impact usability therefore ) > > In my opinion, the Q&A type posts are really hard to read as a > discussion and ask/answer multiple questions (like a discussion would) > or have any flow aside from "here's the answer". You end up with > multiple "answers" (potentially voted up/down), and then each of those > can have some seemingly random comments below them. You don't get the > ability to "quote" posts, or have a back-and-forth type discussion > such as you would be able to do with most (all?) forum software, and > the end result is it's quite hard to read/understand beyond a simple > question and answer. > > That's my personal issue with the Q&A type sites, there may be other > issues as well -- I don't use/frequent them enough to know much beyond > that. I agree ... I hate the Q&A/serverfault type setups -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20120808/283d9d9c/attachment-0007.sig>