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With Stack Exchange, I am pretty sure you can only provide one answer per question. To me, the fundamental difference between a Q&A site and a forum, is not being able to 'chatter' (or forcing your community to use the comments for clarification on things) with answers. With my community, I think a big challenge will be teaching our users that OSQA is not a forum. I will ask them to read the FAQs, but I was hoping that OSQA would have the same intelligence as SE to prevent users from using it as a forum e.g. I have asked this question. Here is an example on a question where the author is using an answer to discuss another answer. IMO, this should be restricted to the comments. |
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Just to let you know you can answer more than once on the Stack Exchange sites. With the box just click ok and then you should be able to answer it again. 5
ahh, ok. Well, maybe a good feature request would be to copy that?
(08 May '11, 01:40)
Simon
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As Benny said Stack Exchange Network does allow us to answer more than once. But it also gives you a warning if we try to answer a second time or answer our own question. While most questions should get just a few answers and not more than 1 from each person, there's no reason to enforce this. Even because sometimes it's convenient to give more than one answer - specially for Community Wiki posts. New users will always need some guidance and this is far from being a concern so big that it would need the system intervention. Good point about c-wiki. However, I overall disagree with having to give guidance to users. I think the system should be intelligent enough to provide that guidance automatically i.e. a Pop-up when posting 2nd answer to say 'you sure?'
(08 May '11, 22:08)
Simon
@Simon It's not having to give guidance to users. But bare in mind that new users and many users do get confused with systems - my point is there's just no way (yet) for them to be intelligent enough for every case, and this is a very good instance in which you'd be picking a lost fight on trying too much to smart up the system.
(08 May '11, 22:18)
Cawas
@Cawas
I dont understand why its picking a lost fight?
Surely this would be a simple enhancement request to mimic how SE do things.
(08 May '11, 22:39)
Simon
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@Simon by all means, mimic almost everything from SEN, including this. Just keep the instant e-mail notifications, please! SEN don't have those. What I mean about "lost fight" is if we keep on trying to make the system smart enough to avoid the need of mods. Trying to make the system to automatically restrict or ban can lead to too much confusion. But giving out warnings for somethings (such as this) is just fine.
(08 May '11, 22:54)
Cawas
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I totally agree that an answerer should be limited to just one answer. I think that number of comments to some question or answer by any user should be limited too. I submitted http://jira.osqa.net/browse/OSQA-658
I also agree to limit to only 1 answer per question. I can't think of a question which requires more than 1 answer from the same user.