stackoverflow.com is in many ways an excellent resource; nevertheless, it has some features that i hope forums.asp.net
never adopts.
imho, the down vote feature of stackoverflow is frequently extremely unfriendly, as is stackoverflow's allowing for all intents and purposes
almost anyone to moderate.
forums.asp.net's moderators and i may not always agree, yet, most of the time, they are fair and do not gang up on forums.asp.net community members.
FWIW, when a member at forums.asp.net misreads a question, usually other members will point that out ... if all fails, the O.P. will report that her/his question has been misinterpreted.
one more point: at stackoverflow, even the O.P. can get down voted ... imho, this practice discourages novices from coming forward and requested help.
g.
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Re: This site could use a down vote system
Feb 29, 2012 04:36 AM|LINK
@ bojangles
stackoverflow.com is in many ways an excellent resource; nevertheless, it has some features that i hope forums.asp.net never adopts.
imho, the down vote feature of stackoverflow is frequently extremely unfriendly, as is stackoverflow's allowing for all intents and purposes almost anyone to moderate.
forums.asp.net's moderators and i may not always agree, yet, most of the time, they are fair and do not gang up on forums.asp.net community members.
example: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/45858/imnsho-the-inmates-are-running-the-asylum-an-appeal-process-is-required
(thankfully, i've very thick skin)
FWIW, when a member at forums.asp.net misreads a question, usually other members will point that out ... if all fails, the O.P. will report that her/his question has been misinterpreted.
one more point: at stackoverflow, even the O.P. can get down voted ... imho, this practice discourages novices from coming forward and requested help.
g.