Timeline for Let's not answer FAQs
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| Jul 10, 2015 at 14:37 | comment | added | user490 | We are all here to generate content so that people land here after doing a web search and SE can sell ads shown to that. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 14:33 | comment | added | ArtOfCode | @EricGärtner Your point being? WP and SE are different; we're not discussing the goals of either company; we're just here to provide answers to questions. If those are FAQs, so be it - we can still be helpful to them. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 14:30 | comment | added | user490 | The goals of WP and SE are different. WP is a non-profit organization to benefit many while SE is a VC funded company for the financial profit of few. WP is in the spirit of Free Software, SE is not. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 13:59 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @EricGärtner But SO's search engine dominance has nothing to do with its proprietaryness! Wikipedia dominants too, but it is free software. Sorry, but your arguments don't work for me. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 13:54 | comment | added | user490 | I try to bring to the attention of this site that this is a problem. If there is any site in the whole SE network that should care about a proprietary platform dominating Q&A for Free Software and Open Source projects then it is this site. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 13:51 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @EricGärtner Sure. I can understand that. But don't be deconstructive to this site because SO gets the top search results. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 13:48 | comment | added | user490 | Maybe, yes. My general point is that, no matter what you search about programming, you get tons of SO links and almost no links to other resources. SE is dominating and it is expanding quickly. I don't like this because diversity suffers. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 13:45 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @EricGärtner I can't see any page from this site in those search results. I don't normally use DDG, maybe it depends on your region? | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 13:08 | comment | added | user490 | duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+upgrade+gpl even now returns my copied question on position three, the original FAQ is way down. That's what is happening: search engines link to SE just because it is big. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 13:00 | comment | added | curiousdannii | And please. Destroying communities?!? Where's your evidence for that. This is a website with 280 questions and 593 users. It's an insignificant and miniscule part of the internet. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 12:58 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @EricGärtner On the contrary, the Free Software movement has always been about redeeming unjust things like copyright law. The FSF can't reform copyright law, so they'll voluntarily use licenses to protect their works for the future. Making the most of proprietary websites seems to fit right in to me. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 12:56 | comment | added | user490 | Meta is a place for discussion. The main site is not about Free Software or Open Source. It does not have the problem this site haves: How can a community that claims to honour values like Freedom use a proprietary platform that is destroying communities elsewhere by drawing all attention? | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 12:50 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @EricGärtner It seems like you have some pre-existing beef with SE. I can respect that, not everyone has to like every website there is. But I'd suggest you let those who like the SE process continue doing so without tearing them down. To your credit I'm not seeing you do that anywhere on the main site, just here on Meta, but still, Meta should be a place of constructive criticism. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 12:46 | comment | added | user490 | The whole methodology of the SE network is to draw all content anybody can every think of to this network so the VC guys can get a good cut. SE as a company does not care about the company, the want to dominate the community and discussion market. And, sadly, they do. SE is doing to communities what Amazon did to book shops: Dominate by destroying the market, no matter what. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 12:42 | history | answered | curiousdannii | CC BY-SA 3.0 |