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Quora

Quora is strongly geared towards open-ended questions. Yes/no questions are not preferred.

Answers.com

For questions with factual answers. Yes/no answers are encouraged on answers.com. Not peer-reviewed like Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow which we will get to later.

Yahoo Answers

Shut down in May 4th of 2021. From April 20th until then, all existing questions and answers were read-only.

Yahoo! Answers was geared towards for questions with factual answers like answers.com. Yes/no questions will be accepted.

Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow

Comparable to answers.com, strictly questions with factual answers. Also for answers to technical issues. Answers are also reviewed by multiple people.

Separate subdomains for each subject or topic, don’t really cross between them.

Reddit

Made up of many communities for different subjects. reddit.com/r/answers is for factual answers, just like answers.com, whereas reddit.com/r/askreddit is for open-ended questions and more comparable to Quora. reddit.com/r/DAE is for asking “does anybody else” and “Am I the only one” which are not encouraged on Quora.

No doubt, if you have worked with technology for any time, you have heard the terms “virtual machines” and “containers” more than once. Both virtual …
Virtual machine vs container: Which is best for home lab?

I don’t know why Brandon Lee blocked me. It’s possible that I either was annoying, was posting too many comments, was repeating comments, or something. If I were to block someone, I would unblock him after a few months to see if he’s changed for the better. People CAN change a LOT. I would never block anyone without giving them a warning like “stop <what-they-are-doing>, or be blocked,” unless its a cyberbully which they say I should not respond to, since I might let the cyberbully know that they’re getting to me. But not in this kind of case. And according to https://wordpress.com/support/reader/#blocking-sites, blocking a site prevents it from coming up on my feed, but doesn’t WordPress have a separate way to block a user without preventing their content from showing up in your feed, and mute a user without blocking them, like Quora does? I looked up help, but had difficulty finding anything related to blocking particular users from commenting on a site.

Just to make sure, I checked his most recent post the day before I published this one, and saw that the post was published and the comment was posted on the same day, but there was no box for typing in the comment.

My reply to Bulli’s comment would have been: “I agree. When I read about containers, why do they always talk about Docker and Kubernetes, and not give due weight to LXC/LXD and OpenVZ? Docker is application containers only, LXC/LXD and OpenVZ containers.

I’ll just delete the redundant post. Again, five more posts coming.