{"id":5086,"date":"2013-09-23T17:41:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T22:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2013-09-27T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T22:03:20","slug":"how-to-use-ask-openstack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/how-to-use-ask-openstack\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Ask OpenStack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">We&#8217;re continuously building together &#8220;The best place on the Internet to find answers to common OpenStack problems&#8221;: our Question&amp;Answers site <a href=\"https:\/\/ask.openstack.org\">Ask OpenStack<\/a> is such place and needs everybody&#8217;s help. Ask OpenStack is a collaborative effort, think of it like a wiki where pages are made only of questions and answers. Anybody with more than 100 karma points can fix a question or an answer and anybody can gain karma points by getting votes on answers and\/or questions.<\/p>\n<p>We have collected some suggestions to use for those that ask questions and those that answer in our wiki. The sum of it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Community\/AskModerators#Titles_should_be_clearly_questions\">Titles should be clearly questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Community\/AskModerators#Answers_should_be_clear_answers\">Answers should be clear answers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Community\/AskModerators#One_URL.2C_One_Question.2C_One_Answer\">One URL, One Question, One Answer (no debates)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Community\/AskModerators#The_evolution_of_a_Question_and_its_Answer\">The evolution of a Question and its Answer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Community\/AskModerators#Other_tools_are_available\">Other tools are available (mailing lists, irc, etc)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Community\/AskModerators#Maintain_language_consistency\">Maintain language consistency<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve used Ask OpenStack to ask questions or to give answers, please let us know what you think and how you would see it improved in the comments below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5154\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/vote-up2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5154\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5154\" alt=\"vote-up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/vote-up2.png\" width=\"217\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remember to vote good questions and answers on Ask OpenStack!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re continuously building together &#8220;The best place on the Internet to find answers to common OpenStack problems&#8221;: our Question&amp;Answers site Ask OpenStack is such place and needs everybody&#8217;s help. 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