What is meta? ×  I'm most active in the c++ tag and as a result
I find myself referencing C++ FAQ Lite quite a bit. That
tendency comes from my brief Usenet experience, where the
convention was to link to known good content rather than writing
your own answer (i.e., don't reinvent the wheel). The convention
on SO, however, appears to favor writing your own complete
answer rather than linking somewhere that might not exist in the
future.  Given that the C++ FAQ Lite website has only had one
update in the last three years, is there any benefit to posting
some of the more interesting FAQs (using the c++-faq tag) on SO
and letting the community decide on the best answer? I'm
certainly not suggesting we plagiarize the excellent work of
Marhsall Cline et al. It's just that many C++ language questions
(and I think this applies to most programming languages) that
come up on SO can be answered simply by referencing the FAQ
website.  What's the right thing to do? Should SO seek to become
the home of all programming lan