Would you like Tom's Hardware more in a Stack Overflow style?

[Mark Kroning]

I'm sure at least some of you know about http://stackoverflow.com
It is currently the biggest programming website (traffic/users).

It's something more than a forum, based on voting on answers to questions and getting reputation points from the good answers you give. The answers are then sorted by votes, and so you can except to always find the best answer on top, when you look for the answer to a question.

They don't have a ton of moderators around, but, au contraire, they let the community do the moderation. So, as the users get more reputation, they have more moderation capabilities. This means that the people the community appreciates get to keep the site on the right direction.

It's also really lightweight, loads fast, and has a great interface.


And this forum can also be ported to that style. The guys from Stack Overflow released their platform, it's called http://stackexchange.com/ . And currently there is only one hardware site based on that platform - http://whiteboxhardware.com, but that's quite new and has few users.


So... What do you say? Would you like Tom's Hardware to run on that platform?

 

[MadAdmiral]

No. Voting for a right answer is not a great idea, as the "right" answer is often very subjective to the person asking. So the OP should select the best answer, which is how it's done here. Everything else already exists here.

 

[Mark Kroning]

But StackOverflow also has an "accepted system" system.

The one who's asking can select an answer, and then that answer is the first one; the other ones follow, ordered by vote.

For example, here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245509/algorithm-to-tell-if-two-arrays-have-identical-members
, you can see how the accepted answer gets docked.

And voting is clearly superior.

There are times when the one who asked the question doesn't pick a "best answer", and then having the better answers (as chosen by other users) on top will surely help people who come later with the same question.

And when the asker chooses an answer - don't you think there were also other good answers, worthy to be rewarded?

 

[saaiello]

I like the quickness on that site but i cant stand the site i wish toms hardware could get a little more snappy.

 

[number13]

don't change anything, letting the users police the site is stupid, like letting lawyers oversee lawyers