Timeline for Add the ability to mark an answer as incorrect
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 13:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Fixup of bad MSO links to MSE links migration
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 9:28 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| May 5, 2011 at 19:54 | comment | added | DougW | @Middletone - I agree Middletone. There appears to be some fairly entrenched resistance though, that has invested heavily in the idea that users should use the system the way SO designed it, rather than designing the system to accommodate clear patterns of human behavior. I guess I'll stop worrying about it and just continue gaming the system in order to get my questions answered unfortunately. | |
| May 5, 2011 at 2:19 | comment | added | Middletone | Wow, it's been a year and I'm glad that SO finally notified me about this question. Just to add to this, the reason that I have an issue with the system is that other users tend to up vote answers that they think work, but don't. If a bunch of noobs upvote answers because they sound nice then the question looks like it's been answered. What I believe I need is to be able to say "no, you're answer was not correct even if it was well phrased or solves a similar problem." This way the question doesn’t just go missing. When I look for questions to answer I look for unanswered questions first. | |
| May 3, 2011 at 21:43 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | oh, it's an issue. It's just not a simple issue. One thing I've found to be true over and over again on SO is the simple fact that questions which are easy to find and well-understood tend to collect answers long past the point where they've already been answered adequately - the problem usually occurs for questions that are either very niche, or simply poorly-explained: the classic case is a question that requires actual debugging and lacks sufficient information for anyone other than the OP to debug without guesswork - answering these depends quite a bit on blind luck... | |
| May 3, 2011 at 21:25 | comment | added | DougW | @Shog9 - Fair point, and maybe you're right. Just because somebody hadn't thought of something before doesn't make it wrong though. And the fact that this post was able to slip through the cracks over a year ago with minimal debate does little to contradict that possibility. The site is also very different now from what it was a year ago, and perhaps this wasn't as much of an issue then. Anyway, I'm certainly willing to listen to differing opinions, but having discussed this problem with people in real life I'm not inclined to believe that this is a total non-issue. | |
| May 3, 2011 at 21:19 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Since you're the first person to bother even attempting to point out a problem with the obvious "this already exists in the form of down-votes" answer, I don't see how this post has "fallen prey" to anything other than a huge amount of indifference from a population of users who don't see this as a solution to anything. | |
| May 3, 2011 at 20:25 | history | edited | DougW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 3, 2011 at 19:38 | history | answered | DougW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |