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Jan 5, 2010 at 0:08	comment	added	Robert Cartaino StaffMod		Server Fault is not designed to handle all types of problems. The designers of Server Fault (and Stack Overflow) would likely argue that a question which needs 25 follow-up questions is simply not appropriate for Server Fault.
Jan 4, 2010 at 22:33	comment	added	Mark Henderson		"Trouble-shooting is a form of collaboration. In a collaboration-is-discussion sense, this is avoided, by design. And for good reason" - this, whilst true, is absurd in the venue of SF. On SO, you can paste some code, someone goes "Oh, it's this semicolon here" and everyone is happy. On SF, someone posts a problem, then 25 questions need to be asked, all of which narrow the solution. Without these 25 questions, you would have to post 25 or more answers, one for each possible permutation. Another example of how SO thinking doesn't fit SF.
Oct 30, 2009 at 0:46	comment	added	Ólafur Waage		But CW is a form of collaboration. Not in the sense you're talking about but it's still a tool that encourages collaboration.
Oct 29, 2009 at 17:11	comment	added	Instance Hunter		I think the problem is that SO somehow got the idea that an answer being a collaborative work would be rare. EVERY question requires clarification and EVERY answer can be improved.
Oct 29, 2009 at 16:49	comment	added	Robert Cartaino StaffMod		@DLux - Perhaps. Interesting premise. But I would add that a carefully worded question could allow answers to trouble-shoot your question. Comments handle any minor requests for follow-up or clarification. But not full-blown, back-and-forth collaboration. I think that's just the trade-off of the successful Stack Overflow design which plays against the failure of the long, drawn out discussions of traditional forums.
Oct 29, 2009 at 16:34	comment	added	Robert Cartaino StaffMod		@Ólafur Waage - Not a "back-and-forth" between users. From: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21175/… ... "Community wiki should be rare. Where wiki comes into play is that rare situation where the question is answerable... but the answer is built up by group of people... Since the 'answer' will ultimately be a collaborative work, each contributor is, in effect, relinquishing individual ownership of the answers by contributing to a larger body knowledge. That's wiki."
Oct 29, 2009 at 16:26	comment	added	dlux		I think that may be why SO is much more successful that SF or SU. Maybe Q&A works better for programming-related things versus troubleshooting a server or PC issue.
Oct 29, 2009 at 16:25	comment	added	Ólafur Waage		So what is the Community Wiki feature?
Oct 29, 2009 at 16:22	history	answered	Robert CartainoStaffMod	CC BY-SA 2.5