First question... The Q&A section isn't really a discussion section. However, on occasion, wrong answers get posted. If you spot a wrong answer you can post a followup to that answer. But as you've mentioned, from the Q/A page, you don't see the followups. My suggestion is, once you've posted your followup, send a /msg to QandAEditors alerting them to the issue, and to your followup. The QandAEditors can rework the errant "answer", incorporating your correction, or remove the wrong answer altogether.

If you don't feel like posting a followup with a correction, you can still alert the QandAEditors via /msg. They'll take care of fixing or removing it.

And definately use your own judgement. If your response is actually "Another way to do it", that might be a "better way", it's possibly not so much a correction as simply another good answer. If that's the case, post it as an answer, not as a followup.

2nd question: You can turn on a setting in your user settings that will cause your inbox to be notified if someone replies to a node you wrote.

3rd question: I can't really comment on why the documentation is outdated (other than the fact that it's probably pretty labor intensive updating it every time a new release comes out). But for those times when you want to link to the POD, and the on-site version is substantially or significantly outdated, you can link to the POD at http://www.perldoc.com.


Dave


"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." -- Albert Einstein

In reply to Re: grab bag of user questions by davido
in thread grab bag of user questions by ysth

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