@JoonasIlmavirta Q. Why isn't your aequivalent thread active on the main page? Did something happen, or have I been missing quite a few questions by only checking the front page?
@C.M.Weimer You can always answer your own questions. But I'm not sure when it's better to give an answer instead of giving the idea in the question and asking for feedback or alternatives.
In this case I think it'd be better to give your own ideas as an answer. Voters can decide how good they are.
@JoonasIlmavirta It always feels too greedy to answer my own question. I didn't even award myself the "answered" status to my question on "Quick Brown Fox" even though I did in fact find an ancient example, because I didn't want to diminish the efforts of brianpck or Joel Derfner's answers.
@C.M.Weimer I understand; it does feel a little uncomfortable. But on the other hand if you had a good question and found a good answer, that's exactly the kind of content we need here.
And what's convenient, poetry comes in natural small units. A length sentence in prose would have been a duller answer and would have felt more artificial.
While you're around, I have a concern. I've noticed that quite a few questions get a single answer. Is there anything we can do to encourage more (besides targeting comments that give half-answers)?
But I think we get too many answers as comments. People should just give their answers as answers. Worse answers get worse score, but that shouldn't be a problem.
@C.M.Weimer Me too.
I should write my ideas to your French question as an answer, too.
I've given a lot of answers, too. Some of them are quite mediocre, I admit, but I still think it's better to have them around than never to have posted them.
If people don't convert their comments into answers when prompted, one can always collect ideas from comments and post an answer. If you don't feel you've put enough of your own thought into it, make it CW and say where the ideas came from.
I think I've done that once or twice. That should probably be done more.
Not the finest of my hexameter, but I'm getting hungry: