FIRST StackExchange Proposal

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by Foster

I'd rather see people make the effort to put Programming Questions and Electrical Questions put into the right sub-forums.

Stackoverflow has a habit of tossing old threads so things get lost to history.

Google does a good job of searching CD, so you should be able to find things that way. I've never been disappointed (but, often surprised when I search for something non robot and it gives me a CD thread).

I haven't experienced StackOverflow deleting old content. If anything, I have experienced the opposite- I frequently find very old questions that solve my problem on StackOverflow, whereas on CD they go into archive hell.

Here are some things that I love about StackOverflow that I think would be beneficial to our community:

• Much better code formatting
• A much more transparent close/delete/lock process (not that I've had any particular problems here)
• Communal responsibility for an ability to improve quality of both questions and answers (we can make bad questions good and update old answers from users long gone)
• Much more flexible content organization. Tags allow you to put content in multiple categories, whereas CD only provides large and general buckets.