I don't get this, to be totally honest. Duplicated questions are a problem, yes. But how would a stack exchange site stop duplicated questions? The best I've been able to infer from this thread is that moderators would lock the duplicate questions and post a link to the 'original' question which would have been answered long before. In this sense, the only difference is that moderators can easily deal with the duplicates by locking them. Well, that or people hypothetically don't ask duplicate questions because they use the search function and find the 'original question' themselves. I'm going to assume that the stack exchange site has a better search engine (few places don't, really), so there's that in favour, but would Gameplay Questions moderators be sufficient to improve the current question/answer system without requiring a whole new site branch?
I've already more-or-less given up on this, thanks to the complete lack of sensible thinking on the part of you guys. It could work, it has worked before. Trust me, programmers can be just as bad with memes as gamers, and it worked out for Stack Overflow. I've already more-or-less given up on this though. (repeated so you don't think that i'm still trying to push the idea)
And i said i'd be happy to be one of the mods, but you missed that. Either that, or you were "strongly opposed".
This is what I was talking about when I said I was strongly opposed - you mostly ignored the points we were making instead of responding to them, and you are now saying that there's a 'complete lack of sensible thinking' on the part of anyone who opposed your idea. I also ask you to consider that you're new to the community - whether or not you know what you're talking about, you would have to build up some cred first before people would consider you a valid mod.
Now, I'll say I am only
currently opposed to the idea of a DFSE. While I could hypothetically be convinced that it would be a good system, it would require more than just saying that it works for other people. And I do agree that the forums aren't perfect, but the stack exchange proposal is currently failing to convince me that it's the right way to improve it. I also agree with those who are worried about the community itself - if a new system was to work, it would need Toady to throw his full support behind it and to lock GQ in order to a) give the new system the support it needs and b) not break up a fairly small community among more sites.
What I currently see as our problems are duplicate threads (masses of them; as Footkerchief said no matter how much you may like helping people out you eventually just stop answering the same questions over and over) and poor search functionality. I really, really have doubts about the democratic method for voting and the inability to have any sort of repartee between asker and answerer (and DF is such a dense game that new players often don't realize they need to provide information or ask questions so specific that the answer doesn't help their actual problem and the answerers have to pinpoint what the core problem is first), but is there a way to improve the SMF search function, or replace it with a new one?
I do like that SE uses a tag system, I'll say that much.