Indulto
07-25-2010, 06:34 PM
http://blackwatchholdings.blogspot.com/2010/07/asked-and-answered.html
Asked and answered
12 July 2010…Few are willing to sit down and discuss facts. There is nowhere to go for real answers and the dross of vituperation, passing itself for dialog, discourages the genuine parties.
… No longer does one have to wade through an endless bulletin board of flames and misspellings, to find the answer to some question posed 5 years ago. If the question exists, the best answer is the first one listed, no matter when it was provided.
Open ended questions or questions seeking opinion are tagged as off-topic and wasteful. The site participants gain reputation points based on community voting on whether their answers are relevant.
If somebody just keeps posting crap or opinion, their reputation suffers and their future postings are treated with discretion.
The site concerns itself with facts.
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… I started a proposal (http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/12344/thoroughbred-racing-industry).
Check out their FAQ (http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq). See if it interests you. If you think this could be something worthwhile, sign up to help create the format. Tell your friends. Get Baffert and Lukas. Davis and Stronach. Zayat and Moss.
Want an answer to acceptable parts per million in an after race drug sample? Maybe somebody from the testing board can answer that for you. The stewards knocked you out of the Pick 4 at Hollywood? Perhaps they could deign to step up to the proverbial mike.
For the site to make it out of alpha, it requires 60 users and 10 sample questions(both good and bad). Everything gets a vote. The format develops organically.
It is a meritocracy. A place for facts.
In a game that lacks transparency, change has to start somewhere.
Asked and answered
12 July 2010…Few are willing to sit down and discuss facts. There is nowhere to go for real answers and the dross of vituperation, passing itself for dialog, discourages the genuine parties.
… No longer does one have to wade through an endless bulletin board of flames and misspellings, to find the answer to some question posed 5 years ago. If the question exists, the best answer is the first one listed, no matter when it was provided.
Open ended questions or questions seeking opinion are tagged as off-topic and wasteful. The site participants gain reputation points based on community voting on whether their answers are relevant.
If somebody just keeps posting crap or opinion, their reputation suffers and their future postings are treated with discretion.
The site concerns itself with facts.
StackOverflow has taken this concept of community and knowledge repository and expanded their offering to myriad and sundry topics through their StackExchange (http://area51.stackexchange.com/)site. They agree to host, through a creative commons agreement, any site on any topic. They provide the real estate, the users provide the community.
… I started a proposal (http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/12344/thoroughbred-racing-industry).
Check out their FAQ (http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq). See if it interests you. If you think this could be something worthwhile, sign up to help create the format. Tell your friends. Get Baffert and Lukas. Davis and Stronach. Zayat and Moss.
Want an answer to acceptable parts per million in an after race drug sample? Maybe somebody from the testing board can answer that for you. The stewards knocked you out of the Pick 4 at Hollywood? Perhaps they could deign to step up to the proverbial mike.
For the site to make it out of alpha, it requires 60 users and 10 sample questions(both good and bad). Everything gets a vote. The format develops organically.
It is a meritocracy. A place for facts.
In a game that lacks transparency, change has to start somewhere.