Hi, I've been using this bord alot for asking questions. But sometimes I would like to just discuss things or read about experiences and ideas from people interested in .net core. I feel these message bords, as well as stack overflow, is not suitable for that. It probably has something to do with the incentive to reward answers and thus we get an atmosphere that is very streamlined to asking and recieving, and this is not always ideal for me.
I can't seem to find any good messageboards for programming or .net. All messageboards like this or at dreamincode.net are all too chaotic and have too many subforums. This is not a good way to stimulate conversations and debate. I feel such forums must be made with more social intelligence and incentives should reflect that. Because if incentive is just to get a reward to answer a question, the answer is more often times short and both answer and question is hurt by this. Another thing is that if users see that the questiong thread has been marked as answered, people think the thread is over. Changing from marking answers to "likes" would go some way to remedy this.
We need to find a better way for making discussion boards for .net. I can't stress how important this is for creating and maintaining a vibrant community. Yet I see little effort of doing so. Isn't that strange, or is it just me who can't find the communities that exist? It should be easy for Microsoft to take the incentive to do this. I would be more than happy to contribute.
The nature of any "nerd" message board that i've seen has this main problem: Everything gets reduced to smaller components. Then you get rules that is set to maintain this. You start with some general categories, like "asp.net", "c#". Then someone is annoyed because some people asks questions that does not fit well into those categories. So they create some more categories, like "Sql" and "html, css and javascript". Then this continues untill there are too many categories. Furthermore, this creates precedence in how to make new posts too, so now you must ask questions in a specific way, and they must all be questions.
There are more tendencies and concequences than these(but i wont write a book about it).