in reply to Cleaning up Categorized Questions and Answers

I think a quest would be a good start, probably, to clean up the existing stuff. But I think that, without some changes sort of like chromatic suggested, it'll soon revert to its current state: which is kind of a mess.

The purpose of Categorized Q&A right now is somewhat unclear. I think that you (vroom) are quite clear on what you want it to be--a localized FAQ that monks can add to--but I don't think that's very clear to new posters. To them, it probably seems like there are basically two areas where they can ask questions: SOPW and Q&A. And that's confusing.

So I'd second chromatic's suggestion to make Q&A read-only. If you want it to be an FAQ area, we can't have people dropping non-FAQ's in there. My suggestion is this:

What do you think? This seems like it would provide a solid FAQ area with good answers and still make good use of the rest of the writeups around the site.
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RE: RE: Cleaning up Categorized Questions and Answers (kudra: Q&A level limits)
by kudra (Vicar) on May 11, 2000 at 16:35 UTC
    Combining the two of the things mentioned, it seems like it might be a good idea to have Q&A read-only a certain levels. If the content is "e;the best of"e; 'Seekers of Perl Wisdom' everyone will still be able to contribute answers. It would be nice if the answers could be attributed to the original author in some way.

    Kudra, basically just being in agreement.