Timeline for Deleting bad questions rather than closing and commenting
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| Apr 4, 2011 at 6:58 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @brad see meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71179/… and (for answers specifically) meta.wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/542/… | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 22:18 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | @Brad: the more you and others in the community work to educate new users (by voting, commenting, closing, etc.), the less moderators have to intervene... It's really too much to expect the moderators to spend time hand-holding every clueless newbie, but if you want to then by all means go for it! Ultimately, the tone of the community is determined, not by moderators, but by... The community at large. | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 14:28 | comment | added | Brad | It only takes 10 seconds to write a simple comment explaining why a question was deleted with a link to the FAQ. I will take the time to do this for someone. While I understand your frustrations Jeff, I don't think you speak for everyone when you say there isn't time. Obviously I personally can't do this for everyone, but I like to think there are many others like me who will take this time, at least some of the time, to assist. Perhaps you should add a feature that adds a comment or sends the user a message when their question is deleted, with general information about deletion reasons. | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 11:34 | history | answered | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 2.5 |