Timeline for What makes the SE network higher quality than other Q&A sites (such as Yahoo! Answers)?
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| Feb 24, 2013 at 5:38 | comment | added | Dan Dascalescu | If idiots could fly, Yahoo! Answers would be an airport. | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 9:10 | comment | added | AndrewC | Actually, this is Too Localized, isn't it. Oh, and your problem is insignificant. | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 7:24 | comment | added | AndrewC | We don't care about your question. Who would? It's worthless. We're deleting it because no-one else could possibly be interested in your non-problem. <<< The less diplomatic NARQ. (It wouldn't have been funny if it weren't shocking.) | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 7:03 | comment | added | jmort253 | @AndrewC - Sorry about the shock value. I didn't think about that, lol. ;) | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 7:24 | comment | added | AndrewC | Oh yes that would work for massive offence, definitely. The summary in my inbox had shock value! This did make me laugh, thanks. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 6:13 | comment | added | jmort253 | @AndrewC - "This question is closed because you're being a whiny baby... oh, and welcome to the friend zone, muahahahaha". <<< This would be an awesome close reason on Relationships and Dating. It's what a lot of people might interpret anyway. ;) In all seriousness, you do have a valid point, and the meta for that site is likely to be a mess. We can still try though. ;) | |
| Nov 6, 2012 at 12:29 | comment | added | AndrewC | OK, Good Subjective, Bad Subjective was a good place to send me. I worry that if the majority of marriages now end in divorce, democracy might not lead you to the best answers. I guess no-one's forcing me to take part, so sorry for being a pest. If you're on the team or a major contributor watch out for people taking things personally and encourage a supportive tone. There's already dissent! Perhaps some of the standard close messages need serious editing towards diplomacy. It's bad enough at the "hard" end of the spectrum with people getting emotional, but if it's about your love life..... | |
| Nov 6, 2012 at 4:30 | comment | added | jmort253 | @AndrewC - You're absolutely right, and that is what makes those Q&A sites tougher. Still, I think it can work. Just look at Programmers SE, Workplace SE, and Project Management SE. So far, they've made it work. It's tough, but do-able. ;) | |
| Nov 5, 2012 at 15:15 | comment | added | AndrewC | I guess I'm also saying relationships are inherently subjective. My computer and your computer should give us the same results with the same input. We speak the same language with very similar grammar and spelling, Physics is the same everywhere. That's not going to be true in relationships. | |
| Nov 5, 2012 at 15:12 | comment | added | jmort253 | @AndrewC - While I like that you're concerned about quality, give Good Subjective, Bad Subjective another read, then go take a look at that proposal's example questions. There is a such thing as a good subjective question that elicits expert opinion, not just the opinions of random people on the Internet. ;) | |
| Nov 5, 2012 at 15:11 | comment | added | AndrewC | @gerrit All the SE sites I've browsed have it as a choice when flagging posts for deletion (but see shog9's point about variation of expectations.) The general feeling is that Q&A sites are helpful if they give you concise, accurate answers to your questions, and that we don't want to be about debate, we want to be about answers. Maybe they won't have that reason available there (they couldn't) but that's one of the reasons I think it doesn't fit with SE. | |
| Nov 5, 2012 at 14:37 | comment | added | gerrit | @AndrewC Is We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion a global rule or something each SE community can decide for themselves? | |
| Nov 5, 2012 at 11:05 | comment | added | AndrewC | Yup. Is there such a thing as a relationships and dating expert? I would close every single question on that proposal as Not Constructive (We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.) An expert in relationships and dating is almost a contradiction in terms. If you have broad experience of either dating or relationships, you can't be expert at relationships! Relationship experts only get repeat visits if their advice was convincing/compelling but didn't fully help. | |
| Nov 5, 2012 at 9:28 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod |
The top questions under the search for "programming" are all asking "What language should I learn". Indeed. We explicitly banned those on Programmers because we realised they were the ultimate bad question.
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| Nov 5, 2012 at 9:23 | history | answered | jmort253 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |