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| Mar 8, 2014 at 9:25 | history | edited | Peter Taylor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 7, 2014 at 10:40 | comment | added | plannapus | @Howard fair enough. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 10:30 | comment | added | Howard | @plannapus It's more a question of good-bad than of easy-tricky. And I don't think we can establish the tags badly worded and unclearly specified. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 10:04 | comment | added | plannapus | Of course the easiness of a challenge being somewhat subjective would need ideally to be agreed on at the sandbox level. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 10:02 | comment | added | plannapus |
@Howard maybe a more thoughtful use of tagging will help with that matter. If all the "hello world"-type questions were tagged with something like an easy tag and more complex, interesting challenge with a hard tag, they wouldn't be really buried. There seems to be clearly several "levels" of code-golfers on the site so it might be a good thing that those "easy" questions exists so that golfers with lower skills can still participate (and eventually improve their skills and participate in the harder ones).
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| Mar 7, 2014 at 9:10 | comment | added | Howard | @GraceNote While it is true that the amount of good/ok questions increased during the last months the number of not so good questions is overwhelming. Previously it was working for a well-designed challenge if it couldn't get an answer for a few days (which was ok, because good answers to great puzzles need some time). Such a question is now buried by an avalanche of questions and answers of the hello world type. That means that new users don't find the interesting puzzles and might be encouraged to also post interesting challenges but see this site as a heap of me-too questions/answers. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 17:06 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | I could actually provide the numeral traffics that further support your side - year-to-date, the amount of traffic incoming from Stack Overflow is an order of magnitude above the rest, followed by Ask Ubuntu (...huh?) and then Reddit. I don't want to agree to disagree because I don't think we disagree. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 16:55 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | I see "more questions per day asked of all categories" as supporting my contention that it wasn't the new category but the timing of the Reddit post that was relevant, but I think that we may have to agree to disagree. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 16:50 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | I'm hoping to see more of such innovation, sorry if that wasn't clear from my verbiage. There's only 22 in total but they represented a turn of traffic, not just for their own purposes but for questions in general. You've had more questions per day asked of all categories in the last two months than you guys have had for years. Traffic boost was in much part be because of them turning up on Hot Network Questions, but from me I still feel that the pull of actual new question types is something that will be extremely helpful going forward to maintaining growth. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 16:40 | history | answered | Peter Taylor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |