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Many other stacks use community wiki for this type of question:

What services are available to hire to customize my smugmug site?

answer format is 1 service per answer, allowing users to comment on each service, upvote good ones, etc.

Shall we go for that route?

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I am ok with it. How do we convert? But, I was under the impression from the earlier meta discussions that wiki was a bad idea. meta.smugmug.stackexchange.com/a/27/167 – Doc Walker♦ Feb 10 '12 at 20:55
I see now how to do it. Still not sure if its a good idea. Once we get a few more comments, we can decide and then I will be happy to make the edits to my answer. – Doc Walker♦ Feb 10 '12 at 21:15
One major benefit is that it would allow for votes on the individual customizers without any one user taking hits for negative votes that could possibly occur. The community user would take the hits. – Doc Walker♦ Feb 10 '12 at 21:29

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This isn't really what community wiki is for.

It's not a question that would at all benefit from collaborating editing, which is the whole point of community wiki. The question you have so far could be made better by consolidating all answers into one instead of spreading them out. Then making it community wiki would sort of make sense and allow others to edit in other suggestions. But with that said...

In general, "(potentially) endless list of answers" questions aren't a good fit for Stack Exchange. Our Q&A model shines when questions are focused and specific. What you are trying to set up here instead is reminiscent of a shopping recommendation - trying to pick the "best" service.

A better question for SE would be "how do I choose which customization service to go with". Armed with real, tangible knowledge, a person could then go evaluate their options and pick whatever service met their specific demands.

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I went ahead and converted it to community wiki so that we can try it out. I think that this format will work better as it allows for individual comments and votes per customizer like @cabbey indicated above. According to the SE Wiki page, it can be switched back if we decide the format does not work.

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I think we should. It seems to work well on photo.SE.

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