Meta issue: Representing questions, answers, and comments
Answers
Propositions or full length answers. Represent as propositions or documents.
Comments
- Questions about questions (a form of comment)
- Addition of additional background information
Voting on answers
Templated propositions can be used to select from one of several answers:
- Answer X is a good answer to question Y.
- Users can vote for several answers. They can rank by how “true” they rate the proposition.
Creating “composite” answers from multiple answers.
Select definitions and propositions contained in existing answers (and elsewhere) and add any additional desired text.
Types of questions
- Request for evidence/data
- Request to list a set of relevant items
- Request a list of alternatives
- Request an explanation
New questions will used be asked via a document that establishes the background and then the actual question itself. What value if any is there in separating the background document and the question? One value is it gives us a way to know that a question is being asked (another way to do this would be to tag the document as a question, of course).
But we can also see many cases where a document already exists and then questions get created thereafter (either about the document itself or about some question that arises related to the document).