FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013)

Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013) by chrnad on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:47AM (#29470328)

I get the point they're making but I really like FAQ's. They help with the "know what you don't know" sort of thing at a glance. Perhaps not useful on a gov.uk site, but generally speaking.

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Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013) by low_tech_love on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @08:03AM (#29471964)

I don't understand why people can't simply say "we don't want to do X because of this and that", they have to necessarily say "I don't want to do X, so X is bullshit and nobody else should do it either".

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Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013) by gouggoug on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:23AM (#29470909)

This article argues FAQs _don’t_ help you know what you don’t know at a quick glance.

> questions take longer to scan and understand than simple headings and you can’t take any meaning from them in a quick glance.

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Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013) by walshemj on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:40PM (#29477927)

The article also getting on for almost 10 years old.

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Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013) by globular-toast on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:25AM (#29470930)

The comp.lang.c FAQ is one of my favourites: http://c-faq.com/

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