Timeline for answer to What does the public really need from us? by Franck Dernoncourt
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| Jan 24, 2025 at 9:30 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Isn't it simply Pareto's law: most questions people have will be so easy to answer that even an LLM can answer them. For example we can weight benchmark results for LLM performance by number of question views. I guess that would increase performance significantly. @FranckDernoncourt The only good justification I would have for roomba deletion is that if the network cannot answer your question within a certain time, you may not have the problem anymore or the solution will be worth less to you if it came (say 20 years later). Maybe we simply cannot answer your hard questions? | |
| Jan 23, 2025 at 22:07 | comment | added | user1114 | I’m also with Franck here. Questions that have difficult or ambiguous answers, or questions where the asker is doing something unusual, are frequently downvoted and deleted, often with comments that are condescending or don’t care to actually understand the problem. Stack Overflow’s most valuable when experts are answering hard questions, not when we’re just summarizing documentation (which AI is getting pretty good at), but the community and systems don’t optimize for that very well. You need to write so defensively to avoid downvotes for many hard questions, and new users get burned. | |
| Jan 23, 2025 at 21:25 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | This is interesting, but not exactly the sort of thing I'm going for. These are problems the network has, but these are more along the lines of specific action items or changes to the platform, rather than helping to develop a more general understanding of how we serve people, and which people we can best serve. Not that the issues you're talking about are unimportant or irrelevant to the network, they're just orthogonal to my question here. | |
| Jan 23, 2025 at 8:53 | comment | added | SPArcheon | @starball sadly, I am with Frank on this one. The "hide under the rug everything you don't know how to answer" is something I saw on most network subsites, sometime enforced by the local brotherhood. It is an existing issue, alongside with experienced users trying to shoehorn their interpretation of a question to the OP, removing or changing requirement just to be able to post irrelevant answers | |
| Jan 23, 2025 at 3:58 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | I'd argue to an extent that the last point - SE content is very much a matter of concern for the community as opposed to the broad public, and might be better asked as a question on its own. | |
| Jan 23, 2025 at 2:59 | comment | added | starball Mod | do you notice any pattern in why your posts aren't getting reopened? | |
| Jan 23, 2025 at 2:46 | history | edited | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2025 at 2:40 | comment | added | security_paranoid | Fair enough, but maybe you should elaborate on what exactly you mean by that. | |
| Jan 23, 2025 at 2:27 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @security_paranoid I'm inviting SE to rethink their scope in light of the recent AI progress. | |
| Jan 23, 2025 at 2:23 | comment | added | security_paranoid | I’m sorry, but this isn’t true and doesn’t actually answer the question. If this were the case, there’d be no need for SE - is that what you’re implying? | |
| Jan 23, 2025 at 2:18 | history | answered | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |