@Filippo and a couple others: Are you arguing that it would be acceptable to forcibly close and eliminate all other programming communities because SO/SE is so absolutely perfect that we don't need any other online communities? Do you understand that your SO "reputation" doesn't put any money in your pockets, just in SO's? It's a meaningless number ;-)
If we have someone to set it up and it can be managed by users, I vote for a stand-alone CouchDB community. It can then generate it's own ad income. Give that money to the guys busting their butts building CouchDB! On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:30 PM, matt j. sorenson <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Filippo Fadda < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I agree, sub-communities when you have tags are useless, especially > > because reputation is per site. You can follow CouchDB and PHP, > JavaScript, > > simply adding php, couchdb and javascript tags to your favorites. Having > > separate communities makes sense, but arguments not. I mean, you can't > > mixup groceries with programming but I find pointless having android as a > > separate site, at least on StackOverflow where a programmer can be > > interested in both Android and CouchDB and he wants earn reputation > > answering questions related to different arguments. > > > > -Filippo > > > > On Oct 31, 2013, at 7:15 PM, Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn. wrote: > > > > > I was talking about the osqa tool. > > > > > > One the topic of couchdb.stackexchange.com sub domain: I develop > > android for a living and never use the Android SX page, I think they are > > kind of pointless. I rather stick to SO and answer tags > > > > Nod. you all are hitting on some of the very points that cause me to also > have mixed feelings about that network of sites as well. It's also true > that the same cat[tle]-herding problem exists between SO and a topic > subsite. I imagine the maintainers probably have entertained the notion of > Cc'ing "dba"-tagged questions into dba.stackexchange (which I happen to > think would be clever, and "leaking" some "dba" reputation would also be > clever) but as far as I know that doesn't happen. In any case, it's an > interesting discussion (here) and social experiment (there)... and Drupal > might be somewhat of an anomaly, I dunno. >
