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Is there any q&a site where answers can be edited collective, as in a wiki, in order to create the best possible reply? (yiffit.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just like wikipedia, but instead of articles it's questions.

Potentially allow for several answers, but the main goal would be to create the best answer using the same criteria we use for wiki articles.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stackoverflow and the associated sites are more or less like that. It sometimes has problems with overzealous users marking tangentially related questions as duplicates but overall it seems to work.

Downvoting costs karma and it's encouraged to give reasons for a downvote. If an answer is outdated a newer answer often quickly rises to the top and often enough the original answerer will promote the better answer. And you can also edit other people's answers and you can see an edit history.

But it only works if there are enough knowledgeable people participating. It's especially bad with new questions because either the question is low quality or the first answer which gets accepted by the questioner right away is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The other thing that makes stack overflow good is that it's a very specific problem, with a this works/this doesn't result. Otherwise it seems to me like a collaborative Quora, which would be just as useful as regular Quora.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stack overflow has a sibling site for nearly every category you can think of, honestly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

World building is actually a lot of fun to peruse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Are you looking for WikiHow?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dedicated forum sites. I've received good tips from stackoverflow, ltt forum, arch Linux forums and wiki.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Stack Overflow does this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There is a "extra step" to q&a sites where you generalize the tangental questions and answers into a wikihow blog post. The sites themselves aren't able to do it gracefully, but there are several one off blog posts that are gold mines from stack overflow.