I use Stack Exchange a lot and it's great, very well designed for its purpose. BUT Stack Exchange is not designed for community decision making. There are tools/forums that are actually designed for that purpose.
Also I don't think Stack Exchange themselves would want to host an OSM tagging area, it's not what they're about. Maybe someone has in mind a stack-exchange-like system rather than Stack Exchange itself. In fact <https://help.openstreetmap.org/> uses <http://www.osqa.net/> which is a Stack Exchange clone. But I repeat, it's not designed for consensus/decision-making, it's designed for Q&A, which has superficial similarities (voting etc) but it's not the same thing. Dan 2015-03-19 22:19 GMT+00:00 David Bannon <dban...@internode.on.net>: > > One thing I'll say for Forums, at least the format will be consistent. > With our List users all using different email clients, with top posters, > bottom posters, middle posters, some (me) who like to thin down a > message when replying and some who like the message to just get > bigger.... > > I'm starting to think a Forum is a good idea. But Stack Exchange is a > bigger decision, I have not used it, who has ? > > David > > > On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 08:53 +1100, Warin wrote: >> On 20/03/2015 4:45 AM, Kotya Karapetyan wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> >> > wrote: >> > Also, if I need or want to resurrect the thread, that it >> > typically trivial on a forum as you just post a reply. But >> > if I’ve pulled up the old thread out of the list archive I >> > will have broken the message ID information in the email >> > headers that make threading options on a mail reader work >> > well. >> > >> > >> > That's true. Therefore forums are better than mailing lists. But >> > they are still not good enough to make a discussion easy to follow, >> > if it tends to split up or causes a lot of opinions. >> > >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Kotya >> > >> > >> >> The splits effect both mailing lists and forums... >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
