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Originally Posted by cynwulf
That would be a matter of opinion. I prefer this format, but I'm an old fart and I find this format familiar, the vote up/down questions/answers sites just seem wrong and badly engineered to me... i.e. in that they're designed around "solutions" rather than learning.
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Well, that's not necessarily a bad thing, is it? :-)
The problem with forums is that you often have to dig through a non-negligible amount of crap to get at that golden nugget, both if you're looking for a solution, but also if you're looking for an interesting question to answer.
I'm not saying that the Q&A format is perfect, or even that Stack {Overflow,Exchange} is the perfect incarnation of it, but in spite of its flaws I've grown rather fond of it over the last few years.