Timeline for Are unanswered questions a problem yet?
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 12:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 12, 2012 at 3:42 | comment | added | Brad Larson Mod | @skinnyTOD - My point was that we are in uncharted territory, but the fundamental Q&A approach and the mechanisms around it are why we've been able to get this far. I agree that we'll need to think of new ways to address the scale we're at, but I'm not as pessimistic about their reception by the community. The new /review system is one such attempt at dealing with the scale, and the community has had significant input in that. In regards to edits, I don't mind taking a little time to make things a little clearer. Sometimes that can have as great an impact as providing an answer. | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 3:24 | comment | added | spring | @BradLarson - That's the wrong end of the stick: not a matter of "what other sites do it better." It is what SO is doing. And sorry, but the rigidity is rampant - see the earnest suggestions for improvements on meta with resulting downvotes (+ snark). An example of what is broken: I see your name on lots of edits (btw- I voted for you as moderator), doing trivial copy editing tasks when I know you could answer the question. Is SO a community generated knowledge base or more about grading student papers? Not enough room to say more but it saddens me to see all the pointless busywork. | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 3:11 | comment | added | Brad Larson Mod | @skinnyTOD - "The SO conceptual model & implementation of a Q&A site is flawed and not scaling well" - OK, provide examples of other sites that have done better with the kind of posting traffic this site is now receiving. Every other forum, mailing list, or newsgroup I've ever participated in fell apart long before it reached the volume we're seeing now. I don't see the rigidity that you describe, as many of the policies and tools of the site have changed significantly since 2008. Simply look at what we accept for questions now vs. what we did then for one example. | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 2:22 | answer | added | Brad Mace | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 1:45 | comment | added | spring | The SO conceptual model & implementation of a Q&A site is flawed and not scaling well but the grey beards aren't interested and simply double down with their rigid views. That's fine - but it is not attracting new people who would be interested in actually building a knowledge base. A pity since there are so many talented people here with good intentions. Unfortunately their tasks (as @RobertHarvey noted in a "Summer of Love" blog comment) are primarily janitorial. Cheers + "thanks in advance" ;-) | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 1:23 | answer | added | Brad Mace | timeline score: -6 | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 0:46 | answer | added | Brad Mace | timeline score: -13 | |
| Aug 11, 2012 at 19:12 | comment | added | user102937 | @YannisRizos: Clearly you spend way too much time on Meta reading adorable questions. | |
| Aug 11, 2012 at 18:39 | comment | added | Brad Mace | @Mad that's a good point but I may have to leave that to someone else. tsql is not my home turf. If we compare 2011 Qs 2&3 (one year ago), that drop is larger than most, but we can still see the trend on both sides of the divide. | |
| Aug 11, 2012 at 12:28 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | This analysis also needs to take the automatic deletion of zero-score unanswered questions after 365 days into account. Else this will make the old days look better than they actually were. | |
| Aug 11, 2012 at 11:59 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | Thanks for verifying, it always pays to double-check assumptions. :-) | |
| Aug 11, 2012 at 11:39 | answer | added | ben is uǝq backwards | timeline score: 33 | |
| Aug 11, 2012 at 10:27 | comment | added | Brad Mace | @MartijnPieters only considering answers that came within two weeks made surprisingly little difference: 0.5%-2% lower. | |
| Aug 11, 2012 at 9:43 | answer | added | Brad Mace | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 11, 2012 at 9:42 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | Don't older questions and answers have a bias though? With time on the site, old questions could find answers, and posts could accumulate votes. Time is a factor, surely. | |
| Aug 11, 2012 at 9:39 | answer | added | Brad Mace | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 11, 2012 at 9:28 | history | edited | Brad Mace | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2012 at 8:42 | history | asked | Brad Mace | CC BY-SA 3.0 |