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Q&A Codidact is a Q&A platform or a teaching community?

Allow me to go out somewhat on a limb. I get the feeling from your post, and your posts in general, that you're thinking "Codidact this" and "Codidact that". Here's a friendly piece of advice: Beyo...

posted 4y ago by Canina‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Canina‭ · 2020-09-27T15:06:28Z (about 4 years ago)
Allow me to go out somewhat on a limb.

I get the feeling from your post, and your posts in general, that you're thinking "Codidact this" and "Codidact that". Here's a friendly piece of advice: Beyond issues of technical capabilities, *don't.*

Instead, think of Codidact as a *software platform* and *service provider* that hosts a set of communities.

Short of some overarching aspects such as the (fairly minimal) Codidact Code of Conduct, and the fact that they all run on the same software, **those communities decide for themselves what acceptable standards are** in various areas. For example, what makes a good question.

What makes a good question on, say, [Scientific Speculation](https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/) or [Electrical Engineering](https://electrical.codidact.com/) might not make a good question on [Judaism](https://judaism.codidact.com/) or [Software Development](https://software.codidact.com/) -- and the other way around. Standards can even be different per category; for example, Scientific Speculation's [Rigorous Science](https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/categories/25) category imposes stricter requirements than its general [Q&A](https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/categories/15) category.

*And that's all fine!*

It's been said numerous times; Codidact is about the communities. For example, [here](https://meta.codidact.com/articles/276296), [here](https://meta.codidact.com/a/278006/278010) (and in several other answers to that same question, which I see now was even asked by you) and less directly [here](https://meta.codidact.com/a/39450/39451).

I don't know to what extent close reasons can be customized on a per-site basis, but I very strongly suspect that if a community sees a need for such customization, if it isn't already implemented, then such functionality can be implemented relatively easily.

Heck, if you don't want a community to operate under the Codidact Code of Conduct, nothing actually prevents you from downloading the source code for the software from [the Github repository](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel) and setting up an instance of your own, completely unencumbered by anything but the [AGPL-3.0 license](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/blob/develop/LICENSE) that the software itself is offered under. Heck, the license even specifically states that *you don't even need to accept the license to have or run a copy of the software* (sections 2 and 9).