What is the difference between a question and a discussion?

Questions can be marked as answered, and will eventually auto "close". Discussions are for when you don't want an answer but a, well, discussion.

Could you please tell me more about auto-closing?

Is this a question or a discussion?

Not really, because it doesn't exist yet and needs to be figured out. One of the things we'll need to work on.

For now, here's the picture. The unanswered questions list in the header shows questions that are not yet marked answered. Sometimes, they are already answered but the user doesn't know to mark it.

We'll improve on pointing the user toward doing so, but sometimes they just won't mark it as answered and we'll have to remove it from the list. We may make it so that it reopens if anyone replies.

But all of that is not yet final so take it with a grain of salt.

Then you already know the difference...plus you do irony.

Ok thanks very much!

About 4 beers.



Honestly, I can't make any sense of the scoring system on A2K!

Oh, Wobert and Wabbit, enlighten me. If someone doesn't like things they sort of 'untick' the post (or is it the thread?). This registers as a a minus vote and is deducted from 'thumbs up' and additional posts by the owner of the thread.

However, if they don't indicate any preference - there is no effect? This very thread has a 'score' of 3, but there are 7 'points' - how is this?

Robert, may I offer a suggestion? You should make the distinction between a question and a discussion clearer when people select one. For example, I created the thread Have you had a major change of belief? It seemed pretty obvious to me at the time that this was a question, after all, it has a question mark, but it turns out it should have been a discussion, because its not a specific question with a definite answer that can be selected. I am sure my experience is representative of others' (unless I am of subnormal intelligence).

Lord in whom I have no belief, suffer me not to give into this so diverting and adorable a temptation.

Yeah, just answer my question - hey, wabbit?