Friends, I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Stack exchange site, but whilst rummaging away on the back shelves I came across this proposal for a stackexchange related to railways world wide. Taking some time to review it in some detail, while it's just a proposal at this point, it looks like a good idea to promote. For one thing, the proposal as it now stands will have rail simulation games, like Trainz, as "on topic" subjects.
For those who may not be familiar with stack exchange, it's something of a cross between wikipedia and a forum such as this one. As is the case here, someone asks a question, and it gets answered. Unlike here, though, the question can be edited to improve it, and there is a voting process by which better questions get voted up, and lower quality questions get voted down. Same with answers: better quality answers can be voted up, or lower quality ones can be voted down.
At this point, the railway stack exchange is still a proposal, and needs about a dozen more people to support the proposal, and a number of more example questions to be voted up to ten before the site will go to beta.
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For those who may not be familiar with stack exchange, it's something of a cross between wikipedia and a forum such as this one. As is the case here, someone asks a question, and it gets answered. Unlike here, though, the question can be edited to improve it, and there is a voting process by which better questions get voted up, and lower quality questions get voted down. Same with answers: better quality answers can be voted up, or lower quality ones can be voted down.
At this point, the railway stack exchange is still a proposal, and needs about a dozen more people to support the proposal, and a number of more example questions to be voted up to ten before the site will go to beta.
ns