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/review: "Post Quality Score" metrics [duplicate]
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Heuristics for detecting a bad answer?
I just noticed this on /review of any site, where they have for "Low Quality posts" a score. Generally, how is that score calculated, ...
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Fastest Gun in the West Problem
I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases.
Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then by descending time of posting. This ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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Propose a new 20k reputation privilege [closed]
Right now, the maximum privilege "unlock" is at 10k reputation:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges
We're considering adding a new 20k reputation privilege, but having a hard time figuring out ...
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Can we raise the bar for reputation for late answers to bypass the review queue?
I would like to raise the bar for late answers to enter the Late Answers Review Queue to 50 rep, which is the threshold after which users gain the ability to comment. Here are some answers that were ...
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Should we require minimum reputation to continue asking questions?
We are reevaluating this based on community feedback. The new heuristic to prevent questions being asked will probably be based on a combination of question closes, question deletes, question flags, ...
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Thanks a lot for this post ... and other first time user curiosities
I have been looking at the endless stream of first answers users post on the Stack Overflow.
As it stands over 500 answers are posted a day on Stack Overflow, that are the first answer by users.
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How does Stack Exchange attempt to prevent low-quality questions and answers?
Due to its massive (and growing) size, there are a lot of low-quality questions and answers appearing on Stack Overflow.
I'm concerned that an influx of low-quality questions and answers create a lot ...
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Plz get rid of plz!
4,599 search results for posts containing 'plz'
I'm not big on adding heuristics for every little thing, but this is getting out of hand. This is not a feature request, it's just a discussion on ...
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Put an end to rollback wars
If a question receives n (say, 5) rollbacks within a hour, raise a moderator flag and lock the post.
Alternatively, if an edit by a new user (say, no edit approving privs) drops the post quality ...
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What are some Question Smells for detecting good/bad questions?
As programmers we talk about code smells, little cues that indicate we should be worried about a section of code. What are some Question Smells? Are there flags in questions that make you less ...
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Correct action for non-answers by new users
Often new users post one-liners with unrelated questions/comments as answers to existing questions where I'd like to vote "close as not a real answer". They come in several flavors:
Things that ...
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Help us choose a sort order for the Stack Overflow homepage
A overwhelming amount of feedback for Help us redesign the Stack Overflow homepage was: "Keep the way the front page looks, just tweak the question order"
Interesting algorithms were suggested by Kip ...
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Find low quality posts by me?
I'm in process of reviewing my past answers and I think that it could be a nice feature to see posts I should review/low quality posts posted by myself. Could we have this feature?
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Vote to emergency suspend for three 5k+ or 10k+ users?
There was a case a few days back of a user going crazy and starting edit wars in all of his 42 questions, resulting in 50-100 new revisions per question. It being the weekend, it took 1-2 hours until ...
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how to delete account and remove resume from Careers.stackoverflow.com? [closed]
Is there a way a registered user can remove his/her resume from careers.stackoverflow.com?
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What is the impact Facebook Questions is going to have on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange?
Is there any concern about Facebook Questions copying and taking flow away from Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange?
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Should incredibly low quality answers be blocked
Recently this "answer" was posted. The entire text was this (for when it is deleted):
dwaadwadadadawdwadsadsadsa dsa asldo as safd afik fa oidfawe fdaudf a aewuf aeiu
It is obviously completely ...
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What is the difference between reviewing and regular activity
I've noticed the Reviewing dashboard now lists stats for what I reviewed:
Upvoted 7 7
Downvoted 18 18
Edited 0 0
Commented 15 15
Voted to Close 54 54
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How do I find moderators on this site?
There are users listed under the "Users" tab. How do I know who the moderators are? Is there any specific thing to look for on a user, I mean a icon or some other sign? How do I contact a moderator? ...
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What is the min and max post quality score?
I've seen or heard of flagged posts with scores ranging from -11 to 100, but without knowing what the total range is these scores are somewhat meaningless.
What I'd like to know is:
What's the ...
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Use the phrase "One more question" to detect non-answers
I just spent all my flags on answers containing the phrase "one more question". This phrase, especially when the post also contains "thanks", "thank you" or similar appears to be a good heuristic for ...
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Double Points Day! [closed]
Look at what the competition is doing.
I also want double points day!!!!!1!!11!
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Could (should?) we exclude the Formatting Sandbox from the Low Quality review queue?
Every so now and again I see an "answer" from the Formatting Sandbox on the Low Quality review queue, presumably automatically added there due to the number of downvotes it received.
However, the ...
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Remove accepted answers and answers with many upvotes from the Low quality list
Looking over the Review section on Stack Overflow I noticed this answer; it's got 8 upvotes (mine included) and no downvotes. Why would such an answer be considered low quality? Looking over the list, ...
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Make an alot appear when someone tries asking a question with "alot" in it [closed]
If someone tries to submit a question with "alot" in it, make an alot appear, and tell them to go easy on the alots and ideally improve their spelling and grammar alot.
Thanks alot!
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Delete your account? [duplicate]
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Can I delete my account?
Is there a way to delete my photo.stackexchange.com account?
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Low quality posts though Accepted answers [duplicate]
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Review-beta: Obviously good answer in low-quality
Recently I reviewed one low quality post which has few upvotes and also it is accepted answer. I believe it should not be ...
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