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I admire the idealism but I don't see it working.

This is exactly the kind of thing the ServerFault.com community talked about back in 2009-2010 when it launched-- creating "canonical" questions, etc. I was keen to answer questions about products and concepts that were important to me. I think a lot of other people were, too.

In the beginning there were well-researched and thoughtful questions, and there was a lot of fertile ground to write about basic concepts. Then it became like Stack Overflow-- "Shut up and give me teh c0dez!" kinds of questions. Then it became Not Fun(tm) anymore.

You can see how well it "worked".




Hehe so how did they assess which answer should be canonical? how did they manage the different answers?

Because this is still what we should be doing but we have got to be a bit smarter about it than just appointing experts.


Good catch! The questions were canonical, the answers were voted on the by community. I edited my post to use the right word.

Canonical questions: https://meta.serverfault.com/a/1987




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