what about a wiki FAQ linked from the slack channel info?

Another Slack I'm in has had a fair bit of success encouraging folks to post questions on SO and link to them in Slack and then the best answer (on Slack) gets copied to SO.

Is that kosher with SO?

It would make Clojure look more vibrant to the sort of people who like to survey SO for that sort of thing.

(whoops, which is just what @jeff.terrell said - sorry, no reading back before posting)

@cfleming Yeah, it's worked pretty well in terms of getting more Q&A on SO as a permanent record of Slack's transient discussions.

Not everything needs to go to SO of course. Just the interesting stuff 😸

i suggested that few months ago when i did voting for Slack alternatives

and quite a few people i met follow that formula

on discord people do that, i saw few on reddit

wow my stack overflow profile was seriously out of date. It sounds dumb but we do need to generate more activity there because it could mean the difference between someone getting to use Clojure at work or not just because the person that was making the decision used stack overflow activity to decide

Yeah, I think encouraging taking certain questions to more public/durable places like SO is a good idea

Also there could be a channel where new stackoverflow questions are posted

#clojure would be a good place, if anywhere

@dominicm Don't you think more questions happen in #beginners and those sorts of questions would be most useful on SO?

I'm not saying we don't get good-for-SO questions in #clojure too, but #beginners is deliberately for questions and folks who opt in to answer them...

@seancorfield I think you're right.

we need a slack bot that lets you send your question to SO from slack like @SOS: why do I get an error when I try to uppercase a string I just reversed?

then it will reply with a link to the question so people can discuss in the channel but when an answer is arrived at someone can post the answer

that would be so messy to try to link slack users to SO profiles and post questions on their behalf

would probably require more work for people to set up than it would be for them to just paste their question from slack to SO manually

I was thinking about stealing interesting questions from slack and posting them on SO but I was afraid someone would ask me to clarify the problem or ask me why I was trying to do x this way and I would look silly 😁

I think a good SO Q&A might require more TLC on the editing/writing side than most people typically do in a Slack message. But I could be wrong. Also, good question, about requests for clarification. I'm running into that somewhat in trying to write up a recent exchange in #clojure about transducers. I've asked both the asker and the answerer for permission to post [an edited version of] the exchange, and they each said yes. I'm thinking I'll run my drafts by them for approval, including a little guesswork on my part about the asker's context. And if SO commenters have questions that I can't comfortably answer, I'll probably ask the asker here for help answering them.

@jeff.terrell Agreed on the editing - I’d expect a higher standard on SO than here.