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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/03/2015 4:30 AM, Kotya Karapetyan
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<div dir="ltr">Correct, but the forums are easier to scan
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<div>Jan, I wonder if you've ever had a question, googled
for an answer and landed in a forum thread with 50+ pages
with 10 posts per page. <br>
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I've 512 pages of ~14 posts per page .. so far. It is ongoing .. and
does not look like finishing. <br>
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<div>Personally, I dislike forums even more than mailing
lists. But evil are both. It's very easy to create noise,
and pretty difficult to find and create the actual
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Forum areas can be created .. and help separate noise from content.
As do good moderators - they can move threads off to other areas. <br>
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<div>That's why StackExchange is such a success and why it's
also pretty unique—it was not easy to find a really
working solution. Even at SE some questions get half a
dozen very technical answers and it's not easy to check
and understand each of them. However a few important ideas
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<div>1) Good and consistent text formatting.</div>
<div>2) Voting for questions, answers and comments.</div>
<div>3) Reputation indication.</div>
<div>4) Editing of questions and answers.</div>
<div>5) Search that actually works</div>
<div>6) Tagging and suggestion of similar topics</div>
<div>7) Moderation.</div>
<div>8) Discrete ads.</div>
<div>9) Excellent user interface, making it easy to ask,
easy to answer and challenging to mess things up.</div>
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<div>All of these are missing in mailing lists and most are
missing in forums.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Kotya</div>
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