Timeline for Is the fastest gun in the west solved?
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| Aug 14, 2013 at 0:35 | comment | added | asheeshr | Stack Overflow because of its huge size appears like a virtual economy. However, if you look at the smaller sites, you will see that the system behaves like an almost perfect reputation points system. I wasn't specifically referring to SO, but to the entire network in my comments above. However, I overlooked the fact that FGITW occurs only on SO, so this discussion is limited to it. In which case, yes. SO does behave more like a virtual economy, than a rep system. | |
| Aug 14, 2013 at 0:00 | comment | added | Mario Rossi | @AsheeshR I beg to disagree. You can find a pretty complete economic system here. Questions= demand. Answers= offer. Reputation/Votes= currency. Bounties= Stock Exchange (capital for capital) . What question to answer= what to produce (at the micro-economic level). Research on my own or ask a question= what to consume. Etc, etc, etc. I have even seen behaviors proper of very aggressive (aka "dynamic") markets. Disclaimer: I do agree that analogies are always limited and very frequently misleading. But I'd say this is precisely what makes SE more sucessful than other question and answer sites. | |
| Aug 13, 2013 at 6:01 | comment | added | Mario Rossi | @AsheeshR I think you are overlooking an extremely important part of my proposition, which is to be reminded about the question once interest has subsided, either to review the answers and learn something new, complement the answers with comments, or provide completely new answers and perspectives in case everybody missed them. | |
| Aug 13, 2013 at 2:38 | comment | added | asheeshr | Moreover, although I understand why you are saying this, I dont think the SE model is equivalent to a "market". The points system is a reputation based system, and is not a virtual economy type system. This makes a huge difference to the type of behavior we should encourage and the type of environment that is present. | |
| Aug 13, 2013 at 2:37 | comment | added | asheeshr | My proposition is to have the site informing the user that other people is already working on answers as soon as they enter the first character. While interesting, new users may find this pretty demotivating. If someone were to try to answer for the first time, seeing 3 others with 10k, 40k or 100k rep answering may make the person stop. That would basically be the market working against new competition (going by your analogy). | |
| Aug 13, 2013 at 1:22 | comment | added | Aaron Bertrand Staff | No, please don't "solve" this problem by doing 3. That's precisely the problem. | |
| Aug 13, 2013 at 1:08 | history | edited | Mario Rossi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2013 at 1:05 | comment | added | random Mod | meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35291/… | |
| Aug 13, 2013 at 0:59 | history | edited | Mario Rossi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2013 at 0:52 | history | answered | Mario Rossi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |