Timeline for Is it a bad answer, or not an answer at all?
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| May 9, 2012 at 21:36 | history | edited | Marco CeppiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 9, 2012 at 17:14 | comment | added | belacqua | Hmm. What does non-answer 'remove' versus 'delete' mean? Is one of those supposed to be 'not remove'? I'm also not sure I understand this: "[We're] not here to clean up every answer that doesn't address the question but rather chooses to drive off in to a tangent or an answer that misinterprets the question." Should this be read as 'we're not here to clean up answers which go off on tangents or answers that show a misunderstanding of the question'? | |
| May 9, 2012 at 16:42 | comment | added | belacqua | Well, there are a couple of older meta threads on encouraging people to vote. It's my perception, though, that there are a lot of users that aren't very active -- if I had more time, I'd try to pull more stats from the info dump. I think a lot of people just don't grok the stackexchange voting/answering/commenting thing. (Which is a moving target, anyway, since the rules change, aren't documented in any formal way, and everyone has their own subjective interpretation of things). I'm not complaining about this -- the site machinery makes it all work out. But confused newbies are confused. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 15:33 | comment | added | Marco Ceppi Mod | This site sports over 51k users, if we don't have enough active voters that's a much larger problem that needs to be addressed. Most active flagers are already in chat, pinging chat to help motivating down voting wouldn't hurt. Furthermore, in my experience we have an overwhelming number of voters - they are just mostly positive voters and won't negatively on an item that's either a 0 or higher score. We need people to be bold and vote down more when it's warranted. Often once a single downvote is cast more follow. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 15:14 | comment | added | belacqua | I think part of the problem is that it seems that there are not enough active voters to adequately police this kind of thing. I operate with a 'broken windows'[1] model -- I don't want new users (of which there is a current flood) seeing the wrong behavior modeled here. Basically, I figure mods can take care of these less black/white issues when or if they have enough time to investigate. In practice, I see that this is not realistic. [1]:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
| May 9, 2012 at 5:32 | history | answered | Marco CeppiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |