in reply to No Q&A from new users

I'm asking myself "Why we can post do Q&A directly?" in more general.
Wouldn't it be of more help to keep the site structure clear to move those SOPW nodes that might be of general interest or describe "common traps" along with the "best answers" to it to the Q&A section, to which I still look at as it would be a FAQ area.

Have a nice day
All decision is left to your taste

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Re: Re: No Q&A from new users
by arturo (Vicar) on Nov 22, 2000 at 08:40 UTC

    SOPW is, from my understanding, for reasonably involved questions about how to approach a particular problem. Q&A seems to have been conceived of as an area for quick *mechanics of Perl*, as in "how do I sort hash keys according to their associated values ?"

    Both kinds of questions (and answers) occur in the Perl Cookbook (plug, plug, get it if you don't have it), and granted the line between them isn't always that clear; but I do think it's a useful line to draw.

    Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

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      A brand spanking new user, seeing two links, one labeled "Seekers of Perl Wisdom" and another labeled "Questions and Answers" is going to typically pick the latter if they have a question or problem they need resolved. There's not much we can do about that that doesn't involve relabeling.
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        Much agreed; my first post (Packaging Algorithms) to PM happened to be to SOPW, but I did have to do a bit of reading first or else I would have thrown it into Q&A.

        -marius
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        You're right about what you say, but my point concerned mainly the idea that a post could get "upgraded" from SoPW to Q&A. As long as there are Monks willing to edit and shuffle posts to their proper areas, these kinds of honest mistakes can be minimized.

        Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

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