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The first thought that comes to mind is the C/C++ tutorial section. An examination of that section leads me to conclude that it is not the place. Some of the material is self-promotion. Some is as simple as "Dev-Cpp is a good, free compiler." Much of the actual tutorial material, not having been subjected to peer review prior to posting, contains errors or misleading information. I (personally, your mileage may vary) would not be looking for an air of total C/C++ expertise and guruship, but I would be looking for an air of essential correctness accompanied by a solid approach to presentation, and a restriction of content to tutorial or informative material.
The approach we had at DS (that eventually flew south) was reasonably workable; it still had problems. There, we merely posted in a "Commonly Asked Questions" thread. The ability to edit our own posts remained live (until the thread was coopted, moved, and attributed to another). The problem with the approach was that some people tended to post questions there, rather than start a thread. This required occassional appeals to the moderators to 'clean it up.'
Hosting the material on another domain presents a couple of problems. One is providing the right mix of access provision and restriction. The other is a perception of competition. If the material couldn't be readily linked to as a reference without contravening a forum's rules it wouldn't be nearly as useful and wouldn't present an incentive to potential contributors.
I'm open to suggestions from the members of the forum and the moderators and administrators.
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