Q&A-style Stack Overflow

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2021-06-16 16:30:10

One of the best feature of Stack Overflow is the ability to use it to spread homemade knowledge. We can answer our own question if we resolve it after posting or we can invent a problem to share our nice solution to the world directly, Q&A-style:

Don't go as far as posting intentionally wrong content to trigger answers. As far as I am concerned, the Cunningham's Law (or SIWOTI Syndrome) works:

Note that this one is quite special. I did not just answer my own question once but twice! Yes we can compete against ourselves and let voters elect their favorite! This is a great way to ask the community which implementation they prefer and a perfect Stack Overflow way to ask which of two solutions is the best. Let's go further. Let's host an open competition. We want to know what is the community choice between three angular solutions. Here comes the subject:

Right now, the vote is 5, 5 and 2. I already made my choice and shipped the code, but feel free to vote for your candidate. It may help someone else and at worst I still get some sweet karma.

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