Timeline for Can we reorder the Close reasons here on MSE?
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| Aug 26, 2016 at 22:14 | comment | added | Laurel | In a way, we've already done A/B testing. MSO has the option at the top, as you can see in my answer. Why is that? | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 15:22 | history | edited | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2016 at 14:05 | comment | added | JonW | I'm really only concerned with giving the best experience to everyone; closers and posters. If you say that people were closing thing incorrectly until the current reasons were implemented then yes, that's fine. I agree that giving people the wrong reason for closure is a poor experience and trumps my laziness for selecting items in a list. I just wondered if theres a way to keep everyone happy. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 13:57 | history | edited | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2016 at 13:52 | comment | added | Robert Cartaino | @JonW I can't speak for the devs, but I would not recreate a problem we fixed long ago just to measure how much worse it was back then. When someone takes time to write a post, we should provide best possible feedback why their efforts did not work. Fitt's Law says we can move that mouse just a bit less far, but this feature-suggestion optimizes for the least amount of consideration/reading to close a post. Closing a post should take a bit more consideration; we want to optimize for that. You may not agree with the priority; I'm just clarifying why it was done. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 13:36 | comment | added | JonW | Some AB testing perhaps? Serve up 50% of users with the current order and 50% with an alternative order and see which one gives the most false-positives. (I love tests you see). | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 13:34 | comment | added | Robert Cartaino | That has not been our experience. We switched over to this format a long time ago. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 13:32 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | This might be true for ordinary sites, but I don't agree this is true here on MSE. I believe people here pay more attention when closing, and won't fall for the "hit the first reason". Fact is, dozens of questions get closed every day here for that last reason, without mistakes. (Following your logic, those off topic questions would have been closed as "does not appear to seek input and discussion".) | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 13:27 | comment | added | JonW | This is a fair point, but is is definitely the case here, or just an assumption? It takes a certain degree of reputation before someone has the ability to close, so they will have some degree of commitment to the site before they start closing. I would be interested to see if the first reason really is chosen more often (as it is, the first reason is pretty open to interpretation anyway - does that get selected often, and inappropriately?) | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 13:22 | history | answered | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 3.0 |