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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by protomyth on Thursday August 03, 2017 @08:40AM (#14918999)
I often wish they had implemented a ‘tangent’ mechanism that would have allowed folks to have an interesting conversation in a bit of an off topic manner about the question. It could be represented by an a link and not interfer with the main answer.
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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by Ajedi32 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:32AM (#14919364)
Well, you could always create a chat room for that and link to it in the comments...
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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by chris_7 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:51AM (#14919535)
Stack Exchange moderators needing to constantly delete comment threads with "use chat" has to be one of the biggest case of desire lines online I've seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by fapjacks on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:25PM (#14922906)
Absolutely this. And also whenever I see a mod axe a whole conversation and replace it with the form response of "this conversation has been moved to chat", I know that is Stack Exchange's way of tossing conversation into /dev/null (and oftentimes when I'm involved in one of those conversations, it gets the axe because the mod doesn't want opposition to their opinion). It's deleting content without actually deleting content. I've seen way too many useful, on-topic, mind-expanding conversations tossed out using this mechanism, never to be seen again.
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