Jane Wells of Automattic lays out four reasons why someone may not use forums for a question they have. Then she disputes all four of them while sharing an example of where a forum post get a lot more done than just answers one dude's question.

The bigger the internet gets, the more valuable it is to make Q&A and customer support public.

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