It appears that all of the historical threads were imported as discussions. The list of questions are all since last night. I'm guessing it's a way for those who want help to get it and those who want to chat can do so by categorizing the topic.
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ehBeth
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Thu 14 Aug, 2008 07:24 am
@DrewDad,
In theory, I'd suspect that a question has 'an' answer that is being looked for.
Discussions, no particular answers are sought. Though you might learn something from a discussion.
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At least that's how it works in my world. Sort of.
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DrewDad
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Thu 14 Aug, 2008 07:37 am
"Questions" have an option to select a post a the answer.
Are you on "Questions" or are you on "able2know - All Topics"?
It always shows up in All Topics, but you can sort Questions by un-answered, all questions, and answered.
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Nick Ashley
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Thu 14 Aug, 2008 09:52 am
@sozobe,
The threads don't close. We initially were going to make them close on selected answer, but changed our minds. Sometimes you will have alot of good information come out after an answer is chosen, and we didn't want to hinder that.
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Nick Ashley
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Thu 14 Aug, 2008 09:55 am
@DrewDad,
Yep. Nothing big (yet, anyways) but for now, when you click on a user's profile, underneath their avatar it says how many questions they've answered. In the future we will show top answer-ers in a given tag. So if you click on politics, you will be able to see who the 'experts' are in that topic (based on who has answered the most questions that are tagged politics)
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Craven de Kere
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Thu 14 Aug, 2008 04:52 pm
In addition to Nick's clarifications. I want to note:
- We'll have many more topic types. For example, one might be "Link" for sharing links. Right now these aren't different enough.
- The basic difference is that questions have extra tools better suited for simple Q&A than for discussion. With things like selecting answers, and "unanswered" vs "answered" filtering on the questions grid.
So if you want a simple answer ask a question, if you want to get a debate or discussion going or just chat use the discussion.