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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by Gibbon1 on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:32PM (#20860974)
The problem. Stack Overflows commenting system is like a lawyers idea of fact finding. Everyone gives an answer and votes like a jury would with the mods acting as harsh judges. This is why SO just gets more and more toxic over time.

What you want is a communal Socratic method. Where everyone goes round and round till the community produces a good solid answer.

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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by MaxBarraclough on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:31PM (#20861576)
The (now read-only) WikiWikiWeb [0] [1] did something like this.

The site appears to be down right now, but here's an example page on Archive.org [2]

[0] http://wiki.c2.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190828124025/https://wiki.c2.c...

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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by hgoel on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:59AM (#20863797)
That site is so good for finding in-depth discussion of topics. Just a lot of people throwing ideas around, way more useful for finding leads and inspiration compared to the fairly bland Wikipedia articles many of the topics have.
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