Timeline for Should Stack Exchange in general be awarding "A"s for Effort?
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| Jan 8, 2014 at 8:54 | comment | added | anotherdave | @Devolus I'd say whether we should have the concept of a 'bad' question is a wider discussion — you could argue that questions should either be closed as off topic or else if on topic they are good questions — but if you do have a question with -10 points, as I understand it, that's the community deeming the question not to be useful. If a question isn't useful, it doesn't make sense to me that its answer could be useful, unless the answer does more than addressing the question — I think in that case, like the examples you gave above, the question should be edited & reworded. | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 19:10 | comment | added | Devolus | @anotherdave, I've seen a lot of questions getting downvoted for no apparent reason, and when reading it becomes obvious that the poster had not enough knowledge to form the question in a better way. Getting rep from these questions is a lot of gruntwork somtimes but that doesn't neccessarily mean that the question is bad. The downvoting of questions seems rather usless to me. | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 23:42 | comment | added | anotherdave | @tcaswell Haha, that might be true, although that would quickly get balanced out for very poor questions. Possibly you could simply say that negative questions carry no rep. | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 23:41 | comment | added | anotherdave | @Gilles Maybe it's more prevalent on some tags than others, but I've seen very poor questions (asked by people with more than 10 rep, which is hardly a massive preventative measure) where the answerer is, as someone mentioned above, second guessing a poor question in the hope that it's what the questioner was looking for & they'll get rep; or providing code to something already answered elsewhere rather than flagging. Low scoring questions are fine, but I'm sceptical about how answering a negative scoring question could bring value to the community. | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 23:07 | comment | added | tacaswell | This will result in every person who answers a question to immediately up vote it ;) | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 23:04 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | I don't answer low-scoring questions for the upvotes. I answer low-scoring questions to provide a useful answer. Even for the people who are in it for the rep, answering low-scoring questions isn't a good way to gain reputation: you're less likely to get upvotes from anyone other than the asker, and you cannot get reputation from an asker who has less than 10 rep. So this “solution” (which doesn't solve anything) is completley pointless. | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 22:28 | history | answered | anotherdave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |