Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ...
by zahlman on Monday October 14, 2024 @02:24PM
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>is not a pure Q&A site. It is essentially a wiki where the contents are formatted as Q&As
The thing is, the meta community of Stack Overflow - and of other similar sites like Codidact - generally understand "Q&A site" to mean the exact thing you describe.
The thing where you "ask a question"[0] and start of a chain of responses which ideally leads to you sorting out your problem, is what we call a discussion forum. The Q&A format is about so much more than labelling one post as a "question" and everything else as an "answer" or a "comment" and then organizing the "answers" in a certain way on the page.
[0]: which doesn't necessarily have a question mark or a question word in it, apparently, and which rambles without a clear point of focus, and which might be more of a generic request for help - see https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284236.
The thing is, the meta community of Stack Overflow - and of other similar sites like Codidact - generally understand "Q&A site" to mean the exact thing you describe.
The thing where you "ask a question"[0] and start of a chain of responses which ideally leads to you sorting out your problem, is what we call a discussion forum. The Q&A format is about so much more than labelling one post as a "question" and everything else as an "answer" or a "comment" and then organizing the "answers" in a certain way on the page.
[0]: which doesn't necessarily have a question mark or a question word in it, apparently, and which rambles without a clear point of focus, and which might be more of a generic request for help - see https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284236.