Forums
What I like:
- Members can ask a question or show cool stuff
- Members can answer or pitch in ideas
What I don't like:
- Usually if the thread is a question, there may be no definitive solution or answer.
- Comments and useless information between useful information.
- Viewers seeking answers cannot easily find the answers.
- Big time wasters by encouraging more postings.
Most of the time I detest forum based services. I prefer Questions and Answer systems.
What I like:
- There's a clearly stated question
- There's an answer (or no answer)
- Searchable database that can be viewed by other people (eliminates repeated questions, time wasting)
- It can be managed by itself (users ask, users answer)
The problems:
- Questions can be super stupid, wrongly phrased, and wrongly tagged
- Answers may be right or wrong (the human factor)
- Potential for Spam (fixed by registration and moderation)
- Lack of questions or answers (depending on the topic it might have a lot of user activity, or no activity)
QA Services for your website:
- QHub - http://qhub.com/
- Get Satisfaction - http://getsatisfaction.com/
- StackExchange - http://stackexchange.com/
- Shapado - http://shapado.com/
Some Questions and Answers websites:
- Answers - answers.com
- Yahoo Answers - answers.yahoo.com
Different roles
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