Timeline for Revisiting the rep cap (yes, again)
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| Jun 19, 2012 at 0:38 | comment | added | sarnold | @VonC: Ah, I must have misunderstood this line then: the only way to increase your rep is by posting an answer selected by the user. Thanks! | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 0:26 | comment | added | VonC | @sarnold: ok, but my answer wasn't a proposal. Just a reminder of what a "rep cap" actual does (ie keeping the heavy contributors honest, making them write not just "another answer", but the best one possible in order to be selected and actually solving the initial issue) | |
| Jun 18, 2012 at 23:46 | comment | added | sarnold | @VonC: I thought your proposal was to award more weight to accepted answers and less weight to upvoted answers -- i.e., giving more power to the individual questioners. My comment about the zombie questioners was based on trying to prevent the whining from people answering those questions -- if they can no longer gain much reputation from their peers, they'll whine. | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 15:44 | comment | added | jcolebrand | You missed the point. He wants to tighten the rep cap, not eliminate it. | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 7:17 | comment | added | VonC | @sarnold: are those "zombie" questioners such a large group they are really a problem? The privileges they gain with that rep isn't even an issue (since they don't care about the system, they won't use said privileges). I don't think there is enough of them to worry about. Rep for question is already half the rep for answer to limit their "whinging" anyway. | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 7:15 | comment | added | VonC | @Rosinante: non-sense: when a user has a problem, he/she doesn't care about "years later". The user cares about now and solving the issue as fast as possible. If you find an answer which is obsolete (months or years later), edit it (see the edit revisions of stackoverflow.com/posts/7514377/revisions), or proposes a new one and the user can select it as the new official answer (which happened to me - I lost the official answer status - with this more recent and up-to-date one: stackoverflow.com)/a/8858853/6309) | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 1:44 | comment | added | Rosinante | Disagree. Acceptance is a relatively uninteresting phenomenon. years later, the fact that an answer was accepted is prone to be irrelevant. | |
| Jun 14, 2012 at 23:00 | comment | added | sarnold | We do have a fair number of 'zombie' questioners who ask a question and never learn enough about the system to accept an answer as correct. I'd rather not increase the whinging about these questioners; making reputation depend more upon accepted and less upon upvotes is bound to increase demands for letting community or moderators change accepted answer status. | |
| Jun 14, 2012 at 22:34 | history | answered | VonC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |