Timeline for Reduce posting of "linking hit-and-runs" answers
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 13:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 9:11 | history | edited | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2010 at 21:56 | answer | added | Andrew Grimm | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 22, 2010 at 21:48 | vote | accept | Andrew Moore | ||
| Feb 3, 2010 at 1:42 | comment | added | Tyler Carter | WTB 'Close as Subjective and Argumentative' on Meta.... | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 23:02 | history | edited | Andrew Moore |
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| Feb 2, 2010 at 21:38 | history | edited | Lance Roberts | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 2, 2010 at 20:50 | history | edited | Andrew Moore | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 2, 2010 at 20:07 | comment | added | mmyers Mod | What happens if you up the threshold to links occupying, say, 40 or 50% of the body? | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 19:54 | comment | added | Welbog | @Andrew Moore: That is indeed a very large number of link-and-run posts, but are they being downvoted or not? Proving they exist doesn't prove they're not being handle well. | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 19:40 | history | edited | Andrew Moore | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 2, 2010 at 19:22 | comment | added | Andrew Moore | @Urdnot: The application has been posted. | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 19:22 | history | edited | Andrew Moore | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 2, 2010 at 19:00 | comment | added | Engineer2021 | There is no way to prevent this beyond downvoting | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 18:31 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod | But I'd still potentially fall foul of the "stricter" two options. | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 18:18 | answer | added | ベレアー アダム | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 18:01 | comment | added | Andrew Moore |
@Urdnot: I do have a C# program. I'm using proprietary code it in right now so I'm cleaning it up to use ADO.NET and will upload the source. Edit: Actually, I'll just post a version simply querying the xml version... Slower, but still works.
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| Feb 2, 2010 at 18:00 | comment | added | Andrew Moore | @ChrisF: If Warning Only would be implemented, that wouldn't prevent you from posting your answer, and coming back to edit. | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 18:00 | comment | added | Welbog | @Andrew Moore: I simply don't understand why you are so opposed to providing evidence to support your claims. | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:59 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod | I'm not sure about this. I sometimes post a link with a short explanation and then go back and edit the post adding a quote from the linked to page or more information. Would this might fall foul of your checks? | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:59 | comment | added | Welbog | @Andrew Moore: Have you got a query for me that I can use to check? Or are you just making stuff up? | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:57 | comment | added | Andrew Moore | @Urdnot: Check the data-dump and see the proportion of answers are of the type described above. I think that's enough data to show that it is a problem. I simply don't understand why everybody is so opposed to a simple warning. | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:56 | history | edited | Andrew Moore | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:54 | comment | added | Welbog | @Andrew Moore: I think the fact that such answers get downvoted is enough of a warning to show other users not to do it. Do you have evidence that it's not working? | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:52 | comment | added | Andrew Moore | @Urdnot: That's not what I said... I do downvote link answers regardless of the reputation hit. What I was trying to say with my comment is that is a community issue (kind of like the 'leave a comment for downvote' message) that should be solved systematically. Which is also why I'm providing three different course of action in my proposal. A simple warning with no change, as proposed, would help greatly to reduce those types of answers with no change of behavior to the reputation system. | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:51 | comment | added | Welbog | @Andrew Moore: Repeating what you wrote in response to someone else isn't going to answer my question. I suggest the following three-step process: 1) Read my question. 2) Understand my question. 3) Answer my question. Do you think you can do that? Can you give me an example of an unhelpful hit-and-run answer that was not downvoted appropriately? | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:49 | comment | added | GEOCHET | If you consider getting -1 rep for downvoting people a 'hit' and would rather see crap on the site, I suspect you are the bigger issue. | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:49 | comment | added | Andrew Moore | Problem with that is that it incurs a reputation hit on your side. The answer might still be of limited usefulness, and I rather lose reputation on an outright wrong answer. This is a community problem versus an answer by answer problem and should be solved systematically, not case-by-case. | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:49 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Andrew Moore | ||
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:48 | comment | added | Welbog | This is precisely what voting is for. Can you demonstrate that voting isn't working to deal with this? Are unhelpful hit-and-run answers not being downvoted? | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:47 | answer | added | Pollyanna | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:47 | answer | added | Lance Roberts | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:43 | answer | added | mmyersMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 17:40 | history | asked | Andrew Moore | CC BY-SA 2.5 |