Can there by any specific guidelines as to what comes under "Forums" and what under "Q & A"? The other day I started a thread asking for names of software for web designing. That could have also come under "Q & A", I was told. I wanted to discuss that point here and so I posted it here. "Q & A" seems only one-way traffic.

When you need only an answer, you may put your query in Q & A. But when you seek opinion or views, this should be in forum. This is a matter of your discretion. You said that you needed some discussion in your question on web designing. Thus, you rightly used the discussion forum.

That’s exactly and correctly put. It is up to one's own discretion. What one may feel like being in a Q & A format, for someone else it might be in the forum. So, I guess the members who start a discussion or put a question will not be a problem.

I find that Q&A section is far better since people respond there to the point unlike here where many an interesting discussions get hijacked and become personal where everything else gets discussed except the subject matter ....It happens with most discussions and no one seems to bother about that....

It is very likely to happen what you said, because forums are after all like face-to-face talk. Q & A looks much formal than this. And it is very natural for a discussion to get carried away like it happens to us all when we discuss with each other with our family members or friends personally.

Where is the need for rules and regulations in that case ? one can simply keep discussing what comes to the mind all the time....

Now there is a tendency to put questions in 'Answers section' that appear in other sites. Latest example is about words endingg with 'dous' and one other similar. This is indeed a sort of spamming. The questions should be genuine and should more appropriately relate to opinion and not facts that are fixed and available on various sites. To elucidate- It is useless to ask question on 'who is first P.M. of India'.

Now there is a tendency to put questions in 'Answers section' that appear in other sites. Latest example is about words endingg with 'dous' and one other similar. This is indeed a sort of spamming. The questions should be genuine and should more appropriately relate to opinion and not facts that are fixed and available on various sites. To elucidate- It is useless to ask question on 'who is first P.M. of India'.

The manner in which Forums and Q&A are functioning presently need a thorough overhauling

Now there is a tendency to put questions in 'Answers section' that appear in other sites. Latest example is about words endingg with 'dous' and one other similar. This is indeed a sort of spamming. The questions should be genuine and should more appropriately relate to opinion and not facts that are fixed and available on various sites. To elucidate- It is useless to ask question on 'who is first P.M. of India'.

The manner in which Forums and Q&A are functioning presently need a thorough overhauling

What kind of overhauling do you need bigbro? Let's have some points to go ahead. Did you read some of the posts in this thread...cheers.

Now there is a tendency to put questions in 'Answers section' that appear in other sites. Latest example is about words endingg with 'dous' and one other similar. This is indeed a sort of spamming. The questions should be genuine and should more appropriately relate to opinion and not facts that are fixed and available on various sites. To elucidate- It is useless to ask question on 'who is first P.M. of India'.

The manner in which Forums and Q&A are functioning presently need a thorough overhauling

What kind of overhauling do you need bigbro? Let's have some points to go ahead. Did you read some of the posts in this thread...cheers.

We can all come up with some ideas and discuss here if we are indeed to go ahead with an overhaul. Otherwise, just mentioning that we need an overhaul will be of no use. Let us all come forward and make it a better place to discuss.

Now there is a tendency to put questions in 'Answers section' that appear in other sites. Latest example is about words endingg with 'dous' and one other similar. This is indeed a sort of spamming. The questions should be genuine and should more appropriately relate to opinion and not facts that are fixed and available on various sites. To elucidate- It is useless to ask question on 'who is first P.M. of India'.

Now there is a tendency to put questions in 'Answers section' that appear in other sites. Latest example is about words endingg with 'dous' and one other similar. This is indeed a sort of spamming. The questions should be genuine and should more appropriately relate to opinion and not facts that are fixed and available on various sites. To elucidate- It is useless to ask question on 'who is first P.M. of India'.

The manner in which Forums and Q&A are functioning presently need a thorough overhauling

What kind of overhauling do you need bigbro? Let's have some points to go ahead. Did you read some of the posts in this thread...cheers.

This is where the role of the seniors come into place.
What type of OVerhauling is the question that's thrown into the court of the seniors and The Administrative team.
In this connexion its is not out of context to say that I was the one who suggested the "Quotes section" is in need of A strict moderation a few days ago.
For example the categories in "Quotes section is not appropriate. And in the categories rolldown menu see the spellings of some categories.

rwise, just mentioning that we need an overhaul will be of no use. Let us all come forward and make it a better place to discuss.

There is no binding on coming up with ideas and go ahead with them. You are most welcome to start a thread that you think is apt or worth.

Now there is a tendency to put questions in 'Answers section' that appear in other sites. Latest example is about words endingg with 'dous' and one other similar. This is indeed a sort of spamming. The questions should be genuine and should more appropriately relate to opinion and not facts that are fixed and available on various sites. To elucidate- It is useless to ask question on 'who is first P.M. of India'.

The tendency of asking the questions that appeared in other websites is not new in Q&A here. If you see old questions as old as 3 years in This site, you will find this trend . So this trend was existing ever since this site was born. Similarly there is a lot of spamming in Quotations. I brought this issue a few days ago in one of my forum s that it needs a moderator because its a high point yielding spot. Then the administrator has taken a step to contain this bad practice . it helped to some extent. But not fully.. The Q&A and Quotes, should be stopped completely or an effective measure has to be implemented.

Now there is a tendency to put questions in 'Answers section' that appear in other sites. Latest example is about words endingg with 'dous' and one other similar. This is indeed a sort of spamming. The questions should be genuine and should more appropriately relate to opinion and not facts that are fixed and available on various sites. To elucidate- It is useless to ask question on 'who is first P.M. of India'.

The manner in which Forums and Q&A are functioning presently need a thorough overhauling

What kind of overhauling do you need bigbro? Let's have some points to go ahead. Did you read some of the posts in this thread...cheers.

We can all come up with some ideas and discuss here if we are indeed to go ahead with an overhaul. Otherwise, just mentioning that we need an overhaul will be of no use. Let us all come forward and make it a better place to discuss.

There is no binding on coming up with ideas and go ahead with them. You are most welcome to start a thread that you think is apt or worth.