Thanks for the perspective Howard, and apologies for veering a bit into curmudgeon territory with my response. The main point I was trying to make is that I don't think the Nuke community is a great fit for a StackExchange environment *precisely because* of the high concentration of basic questions from new users. As you mentioned, Stack* can be perceived as somewhat exclusionary toward new users by discouraging them from asking questions that have already been asked, which subsequently prevents them from really getting involved in anything more than a passive capacity.
The fragmentation becomes problematic if people who can answer questions aren't interested in keeping track of three different communities all the time, and similarly, if the people who are asking questions don't feel like posting them in three different places (and monitoring them for answers). Generally, there are quite a few people who can (and do) provide answers for the basic stuff, but once the questions hit a certain technical threshold, the only people who can answer them are Foundry employees (or people who have already gotten answers from them). Thus, unless some of the Foundry devs and/or support people take it upon themselves to keep abreast of the StackExchange site as well, it may go wanting for higher-level questions (and possibly users as a consequence). -Nathan From: Howard Jones Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 2:36 PM To: Nuke user discussion Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Nuke Stack Exchange Proposal Personally I don't mind the dumb questions. I've done enough of them myself but also I have noticed that this also helps develop a new generation (I'm getting old) of users who have the confidence to answer these questions. I'm for this as it is a way to spread knowledge. What I don't like about stackoverflow is when researching something myself I often see people berated for their question in which the berator could have answered in less time than it took to er... berate them. Also I have had to read all this to find out my question isn't answered. I'm all for quality questions and I'm for not fragmenting the list, but I'm not for having a list that discourages newbies on finding their feet in a forum. I know I have sometimes given a short comment but it's not something I'd mean to do. I think quality answers are the key. There, a reply of length that even Henrik might be proud of ;) Howard
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