Sociality, Q & A
I think more websites should opt for a user created Q&A instead of a "frequently asked questions" page. A lot of times, what I am looking for is not in the frequently asked section and I have to either email someone or try to figure it out myself. This usually ends in utter disgust with whatever site I am on. And although I despise having to wait for a response from someone in a cubicle somewhere, I am still not any more prompted to learn code myself to make my own website. No thank you Zach from code source who keeps harassing me about learning code!
The idea of everyone sharing what they know is awesome! There are things that are possibilities too, like whoever's questions I changed asked a really cool one about having music played in the background. That is something I didn't know was possible, but now I want to know the answer to that question.
I think the downsides to this would be that crazy people would either delete or change questions from other people because they were deemed not important or in the wrong format. Also, I think that it would take prompting to go on a website and write in answers to these questions, because people are so selfish that they only want their question answered. Unless they enjoy typing out explanations, I think more questions would go unanswered. Perhaps a better idea would have been to make a Q&A page where people would go on and write a question about something they tackled and how they did it as the answer. That way, the question never goes unanswered. But I guess, then it wouldn't be sociality. Isn't the purpose of sociality that we can depend on one another, instead of being alone? Shouldn't our Q&A page unite us as a community?
Devin Arriaza