Timeline for Automatically protect questions with three or more low-rep-user deleted answers
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| May 5, 2011 at 16:07 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=1228 by developer User.Id=811 | |
| May 5, 2011 at 14:48 | history | edited | Nick CraverMod |
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| May 5, 2011 at 14:48 | answer | added | Nick CraverMod | timeline score: 27 | |
| May 2, 2011 at 14:24 | comment | added | Hendrik Vogt | @YOU: One reason to start on old questions could be that you can take all the time you want to answer them. This might be a rare case, but I agree with Grace that a general mechanism is not The Way to Go here. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:59 | history | edited | user1228 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 2, 2011 at 13:47 | comment | added | YOU | @Grace, reason is simply because there is more spams compare to good answer, IMHO. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:45 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @YOU There's no reason they need to be protected in the first place, either. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:45 | comment | added | YOU | @Grace, Imm, I still don't understand why 1+ year ago questions should be first one to get started on SO. There is a lot of recent questions on mainpage to answer it. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:43 | comment | added | user1228 | @GraceNote: I'd prefer the ability to access the mod dashboard. At least, those options that make sense (those that can be reasonably used with the information available in the mod list. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:41 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @YOU It's one thing to tell someone who can't comment "Just answer a couple questions, you'll get enough reputation". You can't do that with a protected question. You're telling someone, "In order to answer questions, you need to answer questions". It's not easy to get started on this site, and if a user finally runs into a question that can show off that user's knowledge, you are denying that user entrance to the community with a big "GO AWAY" sign if it's protected for no good reason. And, at the same time, you're denying the question asker a potentially great answer. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:31 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | This is why Will's suggestion here, while I'm still personally against automation, at least it is targetting exactly what protection is meant to target - posts that get noise. That is what protection is meant for. If you block legitimate questions that aren't attracting junk, you're just imposing a barrier to new entries for absolutely no reason. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:31 | comment | added | YOU | @Grace, Well, Even if you can't answer that question(25 rep you got) as first one, I am sure you can answer that question as 2nd question :-) | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:28 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @YOU My first answer on Stack Overflow, back when I had 1 rep, was to a question with an accepted answer. It was the correct answer, it got me 25 reputation from the vote-up and accept. My case is only 2 months, but that's only my case. Age and acceptance are not indicators of a need to be protected, and it can very well present a problem. Pre-emptitive protection is a very dangerous thing, and I really do not find it a wise move in any circumstance. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:26 | comment | added | YOU | @Grace & Cody, Well, first, 90% of recently protected question with accepted answer and from '08, '09 ... stackoverflow.com/tools?tab=stats&daterange=last30days, and protecting only limit to users with less than 10 reps, limiting to such questions shouldn't have any probem, imho. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:18 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | If it boiled down to a choice, Will, do you prefer this or your original suggestion for protection from the dashboard? It seems the main argument for automated protection is that we do not have that dashboard functionality, but I am curious if you'd still prefer the automation even if we had the dashboard functionality. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 13:15 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @YOU Because accepted answers are not a good indicator alone. They do not always indicate that the problem is solved, and they certainly do not impart an indication that there is a problem for accumulating noise. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 12:56 | comment | added | YOU | @Cody, similar but they didn't mention about accepted answer. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 12:54 | comment | added | Cody Gray | @YOU: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79812/… I agree with Jeff that the "proven track record" is key here. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 12:52 | comment | added | YOU | I even think that all the posts with a year old, with accepted answers should be protected. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 12:45 | comment | added | Felix | Ok. I did is a couple of times but I was unsure whether I use "my powers" correctly. I will pay more attention now :) | |
| May 2, 2011 at 12:41 | comment | added | user1228 | @Felix: Would be nice if they did. I've only seen that happen one time, unfortunately. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 12:39 | comment | added | Felix | So I assume it would also help you (apart from this feature request) if users (with enough rep) who flag such questions also protect them? | |
| May 2, 2011 at 12:28 | history | asked | user1228 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |