On Mar 28, 2019, at 12:37 PM, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Wireshark *does* have a question-and-answer site, but that's not a forum - a
> Q&A site is a crowdsourced FAQ, where the goal is to *avoid* discussion as
> much as possible by making it possible for people to find questions that have
> already been asked and answered, so they just have to read the answer, rather
> than post a question and wait for the answer. That's why, for example:
...
if a question is asked in a comment on the original question, in order,
for example, to get more information required to answer the question but not
present in the original question, the answer to that question should be posted
as a subsequent comment to the original question, *NOT* as an answer to the
original question, and why we'll change an "answer" that doesn't answer the
original question into a comment - an answer, on a Q&A site, should be an
answer to the original question;
if a question is asked in a comment on an answer, in order, for
example, to get details of the answer explained better, the answer to that
question should be posted as a subsequent comment on that answer.
Note also that you can edit your own question, so that, if a comment is posted
asking for more details, you can put the details in your question - just post a
comment saying you've updated the question. That way, the original question
can be read by others, to see whether it's the same question as the one to
which they're looking for an answer.
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