Timeline for Negative voting for proposals
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| Jun 13, 2010 at 13:07 | vote | accept | slugster | ||
| Jun 3, 2010 at 9:47 | comment | added | Simon P Stevens | Also, what about migrations. Will there be a way for RegEx questions to be closed on SO and migrated to the new site, because if you can't migrate then the community will end up splitting in half. | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 9:47 | comment | added | Simon P Stevens | @devinb: Perhaps just during the beta phase, these hypothetical RegEx & Perl experts will expend time seeding the new site and discussing the community standards. This will be time lost from answering Perl questions on SO. (I'm slightly playing devils advocate, I see your point, and I kind of agree that the RegEx site probably isn't going to do any major damage I'm just raising the risk as something to watch out for.) | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 9:28 | comment | added | devinb | @Simon, I see no reason for them to stop answering perl questions on SO. They will go to RegEx to answer some regex questions when/if they have them, and they will go to SO for their programming questions. The fact that I answer C# questions does not stop me from answering SharePoint questions. | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 9:26 | comment | added | Simon P Stevens | @The Cat: I think it may take away from SO. People who are RegEx experts will move over to the new RegEx site and stop using SO. But these guys are also likely to be good perl programmers, so they stop answering perl questions on SO and SO suffers. It's not just stealing RegEx questions, it's stealing users who could answer other questions too. At the very least just in the early stage while they expend time/energy on seeding the new RegEx site and forming the community. | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 9:23 | comment | added | devinb | @Simon, that one would simply move all the RegEx related stuff to a different site, which is fine, because the RegEx gurus could check both, and the people uninterested in RegEx would stay on SO. It simply categorizes. | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 9:12 | comment | added | Gnome | @Simon: I had that one in mind too, but it won't take away from SO in reality, so it's not a good example. However, on the off chance it does, is there any possibility that could be an improvement over the current state of affairs? This is saying that it would "steal" all the regex traffic from SO, but the sites are in the same network, so nothing is really lost. -- You register your opposition by leaving a comment on the proposal and/or upvoting an existing comment. | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 9:10 | comment | added | Simon P Stevens | I understand the whole point measuring potential participation, but what about sites that may actively take participation away from existing sites. Take for example the RegEx proposal. It's interesting for sure, but I think it's a subset of SO that in my opinion should remain on SO as a tag. I'm not saying everyone has to agree with me, I'm sure plenty don't, but currently it only takes 60 people to form the site - shouldn't there be some way to register my opposition to the creation of a new site that could damage an existing one. | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 8:57 | history | answered | devinb | CC BY-SA 2.5 |