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[Meta] Can we change the rule about "only questions"? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone,

I was about to post a link to an interesting article (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity-bae), but I then remembered that this community only allows questions.

Could we maybe update that rule so that interesting career-related articles can be shared too? The alternative I see is having a dedicated "cscareer" community, but I don't think it would be really useful as the current activity here is quite low

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe you could share the article in the form of a question? Like, pose the thesis of the article to the group as an opinion and ask for feedback?

The point of a questions-only forum is to encourage discussion in the comments and prevent bots spamming article links. If there's only one question per month, but it is answered promptly and encourages discussion, then the forum is working. If there are 100 posts a day drowning out questions, and zero discussion, then it's worthless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That was my idea too, but I had experiences in the past where the moderator would remove the post due to it not being a "genuine question", hence my suggestion to update the rule