Timeline for External forum dedicated to tikz/pgf
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| May 31, 2011 at 14:24 | vote | accept | pluton | ||
| May 31, 2011 at 13:08 | comment | added | Martin Scharrer Mod | @xport: It all depends what you understand under "forum" of course. In general a forum has a much less strict format and have often a tree like structure in their threads, i.e. people post replies on the posts of other people. This generates a much lower signal-to-noise ratio then on a stricter Q&A site like this. This results in a better quality and is a main reason why e.g. Google lists us very high. We don't won't (new) people to think that this site is just another forum to avoid non-answers and other unwanted things. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:59 | comment | added | Display Name |
@Martin: Why cannot *.stackexchange.com | stackoverflow.com be called/categorized as a forum?
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| May 31, 2011 at 12:54 | history | edited | Martin ScharrerMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 31, 2011 at 12:52 | answer | added | Andrew Stacey | timeline score: 21 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:51 | comment | added | Martin Scharrer Mod | @percusse, @pluton: TeX.SX is not a forum! | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:50 | comment | added | percusse | @pluton: Yep, that didn't work as a joke I guess. What I wanted to say is that Pgf/TikZ are becoming a strong internal mechanism for La/TeXing and many questions appear on the site having content interlinked with some x package + Pgf problem. Then there would appear the difficulty of classification of these problems. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:50 | answer | added | Martin ScharrerMod | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:48 | comment | added | Display Name | @pluton: Do we need to give the same privilege to PSTricks? :) | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:44 | comment | added | pluton | @Martin: ok thanks, I was not sure about where to ask the question. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:44 | comment | added | pluton | @percusse: I'm not talking about pollution of any kind. I just think it could be more efficient for (potential) tikzs user to have a dedicated forum even though I know this tool has strong links with tex. For an improved organization of the forum and as a non (yet) tikz user, I just think that two separate forums are relevant. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:42 | comment | added | Martin Scharrer Mod | @pluton: This clearly belongs on meta.tex.sx because it is a question about the site. I migrated it there now. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:41 | history | migrated | from tex.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| May 31, 2011 at 12:37 | comment | added | percusse |
I don't think Tikz/Pgf questions, in a way, "pollute" the forum. It is just because graphics are becoming indispensible in any kind of TeX document, which were long confined to the \includegraphics{} command (slight exaggeration of course). What you can do is amazing with them. Besides, you see a lot of other types of questions also if you turn off the "TikZ/Pgf" filter ;)
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| May 31, 2011 at 12:25 | answer | added | Helios | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:22 | history | asked | pluton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |