[sevenseacat]

I mean, that's literally what the site was designed for. It was not designed to be a community. It was designed to be a Q&A site.

[mort96]

A Q&A site where the community asks questions and the community answers them. That doesn't work without a community.

[skillina]

Community won't stick around if the questions they're shown aren't stimulating, either.

[nolok]

Which is exactly why "extended discussion" should have been nurtured in their own way rather than fought against, that's how you get stimulating conversations.