Timeline for How to know which questions should be closed, a reprise
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| Aug 7, 2014 at 17:44 | comment | added | Oli Mod | Indeed, scale bites us all eventually. That "you implied so" post was actually a problem of scale itself. There weren't enough moderators to handle the rapidly increasing number of flags. The very same is now true in the review queue. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 17:38 | comment | added | bain | If old unanswered posts did not exist, or could not be closed, then no time would be spent dealing with them. All I'm saying is that changing the system would be a lot more effective than asking people not to do the things that they have previously been encouraged to do. This is not a new problem. The previous consensus was that abandoned questions should be flagged for closure - you implied so. Perhaps that does not scale. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 15:50 | comment | added | Oli Mod | You're still worrying about yesterday's jam. Old unanswered posts existing isn't the problem, it's that we're all spending an inordinate amount of time dealing with them. This goes doubly for things being forced in front of reviewers. I'd like to stop that happening so that answerers and reviewers alike can focus on the hundreds of new posts we get every day. If your ADHD won't let you allow ancient questions to float past on the front page, live in the stream. Trust me, it's a much happier existence. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 13:53 | comment | added | bain | Yes, a question can get marked "answered" by having a single answer with a single upvote, but this does not end its life - people will still comment on it, try answering it, etc. Eventually the question will probably become irrelevant, the release the question was asked about will become EOL, and then someone might flag to close it. This is more likely if it attracts poor quality answers (ie. an upvote for a friendly answer that is incorrect or not good enough). The system allows this to happen. From reading meta it seems this is an issue that comes up again and again. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 11:39 | comment | added | Oli Mod | In the larger argument about improving the system... I agree (and there are a few changes I'll be recommending to SE) but there are relatively few users generating the flags that lead to all this review churn; this is something that education can help with. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 11:35 | comment | added | Oli Mod | Your diagram isn't quite accurate. Any answer with a positive score kicks the question off the "unanswered" pile. There is no requirement that every question ends up either closed or accepted... Just a good answer will do. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 11:17 | history | answered | bain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |