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Dealing with outdated questions with incorrect answers
It seems you both require that this is a duplicate and say that it is not, simultaneously. Seems like the crux of your problem.
You say that you can't ask a new question because it would be a ...
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What Easter eggs do the chat sites have?
Room Owner Only: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Go into one of the rooms you own, and try to set a timeout for -1 seconds. You will then receive a notification saying "I’m sorry Dave,...
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What can I do if an answer in the "First Answers" Review Queue is objectively wrong?
If you can determine that an answer is wrong then that's a bonus, we don't require that people understand whether an answer is correct in order to review it.
You can do any of the things you'd ...
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If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites
TL;DR: Please prevent the logical network-wide effects that this experiment might have.
This is slightly similar to a previous answer about the association bonus posted on Sept 19 by cocomat.
While ...
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If downvotes by everyone will be allowed, they require even better understanding what are the reasons of downvoting. The following proposal doesn’t sound comprehensive and complete:
“To ...
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If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites
In addition to my points in my other answer, I would like to pose a question: what do you mean by "participation" in this context? Are you implying that lowering the voting threshold will ...
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I think this is a good experiment if the following are excluded:
Removing the 1 reputation cost to downvote answers
Reducing the reputation required to cast votes in child meta sites to 1
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Sorry, I think this is a bad idea (for reasons already explained in other posts).
If you want to increase engagement and - perhaps - highlight quality answers, how about allowing users above a ...
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This experiment identifies a discrepancy between "outcomes that benefit StackOverflow Inc." and "outcomes that benefit StackExchange Users", in a way that is going to make it hard ...
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We have collected user research over the years indicating that many people have struggled to participate because they feel the restrictions about who can vote are too limiting and prevents them from ...
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If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites
In my opinion:
Letting users vote from 1 rep is opening sites very much to botting and spamming.
Giving that power to users that created their account 30 seconds ago would open the door to people ...
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What does a good flag for suspected AI (e.g., ChatGPT) content look like?
Related: In an answer to New flag for ChatGPT answers, @Laurel makes the point that:
... your suggestion prevents the user from giving any details about why the answer is AI generated. These details ...
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How about a macroeconomic analogy? It's likely to be an inflationary measure.
This is one of "government" actions that can easily lead to an increase in the "inflation rate", due ...
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I'm not sure dropping the rep threshold for voting is such a good idea. However, I strongly believe that eliminating the bias towards upvotes is a good thing. That means:
equal reputation cost for up/...
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What's the current barrier for voting? 100?
Isn't that what you get for participating in more than one stackexchange community?
+100 Association Bonus
So what's the difference between giving 100 rep ...
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To understand motivations for new downvoters, the first few downvotes from a <125-rep user would require them to explain their downvote - this information will not be posted anywhere, but will ...
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1 rep voting is bad for reasons outlined in
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/393135/320796
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/393133/320796
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/393137/320796
In general, ...
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If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites
1-rep users can already cast votes.
This is the message shown to all logged-in users who have less than 125 ...
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I was going to post this as a comment, but I decided to post as answer instead to try to get more visibility to this issue.
Forgive me if others already mentioned this and/or if I am missing something ...
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...the core concept behind all of them is to prevent misuse and protect the perceived value of the content on the sites...
Let me focus on the core concept. Misuse is surely a concern for voting but ...
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I have concerns about how malicious users could exploit this change, but SE has heard those from me and many other mods already. In the end this will come down to how much effort SE will spend on mod ...
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A list of per-site meta discussion
Because I like lists (except when chatgpt makes them).
From searching is:q [discussion] created:2023-09-19.. url:meta.stackexchange.com url:393127 on stackexchange....
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I proposed this a bunch of times in my comments and possibly some of my posts on MSO throughout the years; I will repeat it here:
Alternative Proposal
You can update the vote count when users without ...
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One of the big reasons that I use and contribute to Stack Exchange sites is because of the barriers to entry. Those barriers aren't difficult to overcome for someone who genuinely wants to ...
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I would rather question certain other issues like you can answer before you can comment, questions get closed before new users had the chance to improve, edits must be at least 6 chars and edit queues ...
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While not per se against this experiment, I always had the idea that the threshold to vote was to prevent against "voting rings" where a user creates two accounts and then these accounts ...
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We need more people voting in general. People who are new/on the verge of creating an account so their vote will count, people who've been here forever and lurk, and everyone in-between; it's what ...
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I like the idea of testing 1 reputation voting. While it remains to be seen what side effects it would have or if I'd want it to remain long term, that's the purpose of a test.
There's obviously a ...
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Removing the reputation barrier to voting for all users is a change we
feel will lead to more users being able to indicate post quality and
usefulness, but we recognize that it will require a lot of ...
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If you only do this for engagement, why not show the upvotes from low-rep users only to themselves (shadow-ban-like)?
Possibly with a tiny popup explaining that their upvotes won't be visible to ...
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I want to respond to a comment, but I feel the response is more generally applicable.
Insisting content creation is necessary to validate if someone is capable of using a privilege, is a model we ...
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I think that such an experiment should come with severe reductions in the limits on voting for the users who gain voting privileges due to this (but not those who already have it). Maybe something ...
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Setting guidance before the test that will help us identify cases where rolling back the changes or making other adjustments are necessary."
so rolling things back (after the experiment ends) ...
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Keep the old thresholds for meta
The ability to post on meta on most sites is locked behind 5 rep (except if you're asking about your post). Even users with five times that amount tend to not ...
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Will more users vote if you give more users the right to vote? Yes, yes they will. That is, however, not at all what would be desired, or likely, even tolerable.
Looking back at the initiatives put ...
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Voting is for winnowing and content curation. Are one-rep users really experienced enough to do that effectively?
The current thresholds are there for a reason. Simply removing or reducing them would ...
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Is SE prepared to make any commitment about the amount of developer time that will be allocated to building new tools to address the specific concerns raised by moderators (and users) about this ...
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Votes are something very important in the SE system. If SE is willing to reduce the rep requirement to upvote/downvote to the bare minimum (1 rep), I feel it's time now that all users get to see vote ...
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Arduino SE would be a great place to test this out. We only get a dozen new questions in a 24 hour period, so if the users with only one reputation point go wild, it would do little damage (assuming ...
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Stack Overflow Inc surely knows:
when a user asks a question and receives a reply from a high-rep user, or a well-upvoted answer, and reads it, but never upvotes it or accepts it,
when a new user ...
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If the end goal is to increase engagement, is allowing them to upvote and downvote posts with 1 rep the only option we had? And why did we directly reduce the reputation requirement to bare minimum? ...
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I totally understand why you're asking for volunteer sites, instead of forcing this on any site that doesn't want it, which would have gone down way worse with the mods/communities of those sites and ...
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Even YouTube removed visible downvotes to prevent effective mob downvoting.
This is just opening the flood-gates to users with no clue how the system works deciding on a whim, or mere capricious ...
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Whatever poor sites decide to volunteer to be a guinea pig for this, they're going to be in for a world of hurt with limited hope to clean up afterwards.
Voting is one of the most subjective ...
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I predict chaos if either of the two down voting proposals are adopted. A lot of first time users have little understanding of the site or its purpose. Having a small cost of down voting makes people ...
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If more users could vote, would they engage more?
Of course. It's like putting a bowl full with candies in front of an hungry kid.
Is this good?
No. I really don't think so. Here are couple of reasons:...
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When it comes to the cost of casting downvotes on answers, would that change be retroactive, resulting in some users receiving a sudden influx of rep when this is added, and then losing it again if ...
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Can those sites have the association bonus disabled/turned off?
One major concern that I (and likely others) share is that this may (and likely will) lead to voting rings and (rule breaking) ...
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Stack Exchange network sites’ IP addresses may change in the coming weeks
While we don't expect any downtime or technical issues...
Such optimism! We sincerely wish you well, but everyone who has been around technology for more than a few minutes knows that such optimism, ...
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Sunsetting Winter/Summer Bash: Rationale and Next Steps
It'll feel a bit less like Christmas without the hats on Stack Overflow, but I admit that I, too, have been less engaged with them in the past couple years. As part of a team that has had to make ...
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