On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Jan van Bekkum <jan.vanbek...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Correct, but the forums are easier to scan through and search, > > Jan, I wonder if you've ever had a question, googled for an answer and landed in a forum thread with 50+ pages with 10 posts per page. Personally, I dislike forums even more than mailing lists. But evil are both. It's very easy to create noise, and pretty difficult to find and create the actual content. That's why StackExchange is such a success and why it's also pretty unique—it was not easy to find a really working solution. Even at SE some questions get half a dozen very technical answers and it's not easy to check and understand each of them. However a few important ideas were implemented: 1) Good and consistent text formatting. 2) Voting for questions, answers and comments. 3) Reputation indication. 4) Editing of questions and answers. 5) Search that actually works 6) Tagging and suggestion of similar topics 7) Moderation. 8) Discrete ads. 9) Excellent user interface, making it easy to ask, easy to answer and challenging to mess things up. All of these are missing in mailing lists and most are missing in forums. Cheers, Kotya
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