On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 01:25:17PM -0600, Pete Travis wrote: > I didn't like this at first, either. There's always room for > improvement, elaboration, follow up questions, etc. Howver, it *really* > bothers me to see a good answer followed up by a not-so-good or > blatantly incorrect answer, or sometimes people will even simply > paraphrase an existing answer for the sake of participation. The good answer should be sorted first, hopefully. And, while I agree with what you're saying, there's also the possibility that an even better answer legitimately comes along later. > So, I don't think this should be categorically applied to all questions > with a correct answer, but it does have some merit. There are many > questions - like Ankur's one about rpmfusion codecs - where it is best > to maintain one comprehensive, correct answer and discourage drive-by > solutions that are incorrect or just not as good. Yeah.... with Stack Exchange, there is the option to "protect" a question, so that it can only be answered by people with a certain (low, but still) reputation threshold. That prevents the drive-bys without locking out real improvements. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
