Good suggestion. I just set up a login for that site and will start 
spending more time there.

Bret

Željko Filipin wrote:
> I have been thinking about this for a long time, and it just came to 
> me that it is related to this thread. I think the time has come to 
> take Watir support to the next level.
>
> Have you heard about site called Stack Overflow? I use it all the 
> time. Created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. If you do not know who 
> they are just google them.
>
> How it works? You log in with openid, ask question, tag it with watir. 
> There is a feed for the tag. We subscribe to the feed and answer 
> questions.
>
> It is the future of support. It is a very useful merge of support 
> forum, digg and wiki with features like tagging questions, closing 
> duplicate questions (with link to original question), voting on good 
> questions and answers (so good and interesting questions and answers 
> float to the top). Since it is also a wiki, questions and answers can 
> be edited (including adding and removing tags). When you type a title 
> for the question and start typing the body, it automatically searches 
> the site and displays similar questions under the title. Just what we 
> need. No more "please search before you ask". The site searches for you.
>
> There are some watir questions already there, but not much. I have put 
> some to try things out:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/watir
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/firewatir
>
> Watin folks use it much more:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/watin
>
> You get points for each up vote you get. There are also badges. Makes 
> answering questions more like a game.
>
> There is added benefit. If we get a question that is for example more 
> ruby related, we can tag it with ruby (if it is not already tagged) 
> and then all users that follow that tag will see it and probably answer.
>
> We could close this group, or leave it only for discussion, and move 
> all support to Stack Overflow. We could make this group moderated, and 
> approve only discussion posts, and reject all support with a note to 
> post ti to Stack Overflow. If we agree on that, I volunteer to do that 
> for the next month, and probably longer if needed.
>
> More information:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/
> http://blog.stackoverflow.com/
> http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow
>
> If anybody wants to know more about it, just ask. If this is not 
> appropriate place to talk about it, sent your question to me directly.
>
> What do you think? Has the time to move come? Or do you think we 
> should stay here for now?
>
> Željko
>
> >


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