Hare Krishna StackExchange

[Candidasa dasa]

Hare Krishna,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I have created a proposal to create a new Question & Answer website
for Hare Krishna devotees.

It's built on the same software as stackoverflow.com, a hugely popular
site where over seven million programmers help each other with
difficult programming problems. On Stack Overflow the audience votes
for the best answer. People answering questions gain reputation from
each "up" vote for their answer, encouraging them to answer questions
well.

I'm can see this proposed site having the same network effects as
Stack Overflow and turning into an amazing resource.

We need certain number of people "following" the proposal before the
people who run StackExchange see it as important enough to make it
into a real website. So, please help out and click the "Follow It"
button on this website:

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/10537/hare-krishna?referrer=oBZN-v_zajmdB6M--FAu3g2
(also please vote on the example questions for the site - they help
defined what will be good and bad questions to ask on the site)

Please forward this to all your devotee friends and get them involved,
so we can get our Q&A site launched very soon.

Thanks you very much! Your servant,
Candidasa dasa

[Sitapati das / Joshua J Wulf]

Good initiative prabhu.

How does this relate to / differ from pariprashnena.com?

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[Bala Clark]

Haribol Prabhus,

My 2p:

StackExchange is a great system for q&a, all questions / responses are voted on and can be edited by moderators. This means the the best answer normally floats to the top, and the most interesting / "best" questions do too. Over time the archive will be more organised and hopefully more useful than any site that uses straight forum software (like pariprashnena.com).

You need quite a lot of interest on StackExchange for them to make the site real, so if you like it we need to get involved. I will follow the proposal and add some questions, my StackExchange user is in my given name, Bala

ys, Nanda Sunu dasa

[Candidasa dasa]

Haribol,
pariprasnena has a few 1000 questions and answers but no way of
telling which answer is good and which is bad. StackExchange will
hopefully help people find more authorized answers to their questions,
as well as create a whole community around the site. It could really
take off. I see the potential for millions of questions and answers,
but just 1000.

Your servant, Candidasa dasa

On Jul 7, 5:43 pm, "Sitapati das / Joshua J Wulf"

<sitap...@worldsankirtan.net> wrote:
> Good initiative prabhu.
>
> How does this relate to / differ from pariprashnena.com?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Candidasa dasa <candid...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hare Krishna,
> > Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
>
> > I have created a proposal to create a new Question & Answer website
> > for Hare Krishna devotees.
>
> > It's built on the same software as stackoverflow.com, a hugely popular
> > site where over seven million programmers help each other with
> > difficult programming problems. On Stack Overflow the audience votes
> > for the best answer. People answering questions gain reputation from
> > each "up" vote for their answer, encouraging them to answer questions
> > well.
>
> > I'm can see this proposed site having the same network effects as
> > Stack Overflow and turning into an amazing resource.
>
> > We need certain number of people "following" the proposal before the
> > people who run StackExchange see it as important enough to make it
> > into a real website. So, please help out and click the "Follow It"
> > button on this website:
>

> >http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/10537/hare-krishna?referrer...

> > (also please vote on the example questions for the site - they help
> > defined what will be good and bad questions to ask on the site)
>
> > Please forward this to all your devotee friends and get them involved,
> > so we can get our Q&A site launched very soon.
>
> > Thanks you very much! Your servant,
> > Candidasa dasa
>
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[Absolute Truth Network]

Dear Prabhu,
Dandavats Pranams, All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga.

There are many devotees around the globe maintaining different websites for preaching. If only we had aonse stop resource like wikipedia where we can maintain our Q&A, articles or wiki. We have started one such effort and looking for cooperation from devotees worldwide in this.

Please see our vision http://absolutetruth.in/wiki/Vision.

We have a wiki, A Q&A repository http://absolutetruth.in/forums and an article base http://absolutetruth.in/. I think we can also support ranking for answers at Q&A.

Your aspiring Servant,
Lakshmi Narasimhadeva Dasa
www.absolutetruth.in - Don't settle for anything less.

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[Candidasa dasa]

Dear Lakshmi Narasimhadeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Please continue with your nice preaching website effort. However,
please also understand that my vision with the StackExchange site is a
bit different from what you are doing.

I see the site as having some outreach benefit, but the primary aim is
to give devotees a way to get good answers to all kinds of questions,
as well as for senior devotees to share their knowledge. If an answer
is online, then google can find it and it becomes a permanent record
for the future. That is much better than a devotee answering the same
question over and over again. It is also better for the devotee
looking for the answer, because the voting highlights what the best
answer is.

I got the idea for this kind of website after a conversation my
spiritual master. We were talking about facebook controversies and the
inability of devotees to do much about them. I thought about this a
lot and had the idea for a devotee Q&A site that could address both
local and global controversies in an authoritative way that doesn't
look like it is just one person's biased opinion. A good answer on
such a site will visibly have the stamp of approval from a whole group
of devotees. Then, a few weeks ago, this StackExchange thing came
along and did all the hard work of designing such a site for us. So,
I'm very keen to take advantage of this opportunity.

I'm especially happy because building a website that people will use
for valuable high-quality social interactions is very difficult. The
best essay on the topic is this one "A Group is its own Worst Enemy":

http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

The author explains in great detail why so many social website fail
and how to build a successful one. The stackexchange model is exactly
in line with these principles. It is expertly designed with identity
(anyone that contributes needs to have an identity and is therefore
accountable for what they write - no anonymous drive-by shooting),
voting (the community moderates itself), reputation (a way to identify
those members of the community that are in good standing) and a
barrier to entry (you need a certain good reputation to be able to
answer questions, for example). All this means that a website based on
the stackexchange technology can scale up to millions of users and
still be useful and manageable.

Your website, while a very nice effort and certainly a good preaching
tool, unfortunately does look like it can scale-up to handle a large
community of questions and answers. This is not your fault. Building
social software is really difficult. To my knowledge every other
devotee attempt at an online community is either a failure, limited to
a few hundred people, or a horrible place that you wouldn't want to go
to. I hope that the stackexchange website will be able to change that.
Both websites can co-exist quite nicely and complement each other.

Your servant,
Candidasa dasa