Timeline for Should Stack Exchange in general be awarding "A"s for Effort?
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| Dec 10, 2013 at 21:32 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | I've seen (and been guilty) of rep whoring - answering a question that I know has a duplicate, or at least an applicable answer somewhere. I wonder if not rewarding rep for questions flagged as dups (or even perhaps losing rep, or maybe gaining some rep as the first person to flag a question as dup) might be a way to adjust this behavior... | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 10:11 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | This is exactly backwards. We need close votes because they determine which questions are answerable. It's the up/down votes on questions which have dubious usefulness. “What's your favorite programmer cartoon” is not (usefully) answerable, we don't want it no matter how many upvotes it has. “How do I spam a million people” is answerable (SF material, not SO), we do want it, even if it's downvoted to hell. | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 5:46 | comment | added | user213963 | @jmadsen on the flip side, even a single downvote on an answer can cause the answerer to delete it (only works if it's the first vote). | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 4:47 | comment | added | jmadsen | Unfortunately, so many people here are after rep points that these questions rarely go completely unanswered | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 3:14 | comment | added | user213963 | That already exists today... If people don't answer the question. A question that is 30 days old, has -1 or lower score and no answers is automatically deleted. | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 3:11 | history | answered | Rosinante | CC BY-SA 3.0 |