Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials

January 20th, 2011

• Quick, correct answers to well formed questions about MATLAB and Simulink.
• Recognition to those that answer those questions through a reputation system.
• A largely self-moderating environment that MATLAB users want to visit (unthreaded answers and voting makes the best answers float to the top)
• A valuable resource that anyone can find easily even if they were not looking for it on MATLAB Central.

By Doug Hull

Doug first used MATLAB in 1994, could not figure it out until he got some help in 1995. He is now dedicated to making sure that no one else wastes a year of their life not knowing MATLAB like he did.

13:58 UTC | Posted in Level: Basic, Topic: MATLAB Answers site | Permalink | 16 Comments »

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16 Responses to “Proudly launching MATLAB Answers”

1. Oscar replied on January 20th, 2011 at 16:16 UTC :
   

   Wow, our very own Matlab Overflow! Doug I hope they pay you per answer because it looks like you’re gonna be answering a lot more.

2. dhull replied on January 20th, 2011 at 16:33 UTC :
   

   @Oscar

   Thanks for the encouragement.

   With any luck, we will all be answering less! It will be a lot easier to point people to existing questions and answers.
   I would rather answer one question once and make it easy for people to find that answer.

   See you on MATLAB Answers!

   Doug

3. Petter replied on January 20th, 2011 at 19:35 UTC :
   

   This is great, but Stack Overflow is already quite good.

4. Petter replied on January 20th, 2011 at 19:37 UTC :
   

   There is no possibility of downvoting answers, which can be quite useful on SO.

5. dhull replied on January 20th, 2011 at 19:37 UTC :
   

   This is the initial release for MATLAB Answers. We expect to implement features and draw an audience more specific to the MATLAB audience.

6. EBS replied on January 20th, 2011 at 19:49 UTC :
   

   It would be great if we could easily submit suggestions to merge duplicate questions to the admins using some UI mechanism/form – otherwise there is going to be a lot of clutter and duplication.

7. dhull replied on January 20th, 2011 at 19:52 UTC :
   

   @EBS

   This is but one of many enhancements we are planning. Please keep coming with the suggestions! We are really working to make this a great community.

   Thanks,
   Doug

8. Oleg replied on January 20th, 2011 at 22:04 UTC :
   

   I’ll still be hanging around in the newsgroup, answers should be ‘integrated’ with it.

9. dhull replied on January 21st, 2011 at 14:28 UTC :
   

   @Oleg,

   What would it mean for them to be integrated?

10. Oleg replied on January 22nd, 2011 at 19:46 UTC :
    

    @dhull
    I like the scoring system and interface of Answers but it shouldn’t be kept as a separate entity from the Newsgroup. What I’d like to see is the same interface and scoring system applied to the NG.
    I know that those who access CSSM directly won’t be able to contribute or benefit from it but nevertheless those who do access CSSM through the NG can have both the benefits of an advanced interface and the best response.

11. Paulo Silva replied on January 22nd, 2011 at 22:39 UTC :
    

    Hi, I found some problems with the system

    1) When doing the “Comment on this Answer” we get a super small textbox, can you please increase it so we can view more lines?

    2) We should be able to edit the “Comment on this Answer”, I had to delete my comment and do it again because of a small mistake caused by problem 1) textbox too small

    3) Is there any problem if we edit our answer after being accepted? one of my answer had errors and I fixed it after being accepted, also add more code, is this permited?

12. Paulo Silva replied on January 22nd, 2011 at 22:42 UTC :
    

    4) After deleting a “Comment on this Answer” and starting another “Comment on this Answer” your system gave me an empty page with the micro (super small 1) ) “Comment on this Answer”
    and the save button, was this on purpose or some kind of bug?

13. Sean de Wolski replied on January 24th, 2011 at 16:37 UTC :
    

    1) On Paulo’s 11.1-2, you also can’t include code snippets. Boo.

    2) In the Answers homepage it would be nice to see not only how many “answers” but also how many “comments.” E.g. 0 answers, 3 comments, 2 votes.

    3) It would be nice to see a “Your comments” section under our profiles. That way I can find threads I commented on but did not “answer” in the event that the OP posted a comment to my comment.

14. Erik de Boer replied on January 28th, 2011 at 09:47 UTC :
    

    A mail notification for every answer/comment? Perhaps optional, like My Watchlist in the newsgroup.

15. Jason replied on May 22nd, 2011 at 16:26 UTC :
    

    Hi, is there a bug on MATLAB Answers? I tried posting a question and all I got was this message: The page you were looking for doesn’t exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.

    I have been frequenting similar websites like, for example Yahoo Answers (primarily). I believe there must be feedbacks that I could offer. First of all, allow me to post questions first, lol!

16. dhull replied on May 23rd, 2011 at 15:25 UTC :
    

    @Jason,

    Must have been a temporary error during a server upgrade. Link is working.

    Doug

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