Linked Questions
24 questions linked to/from Empowering tag-badge holders part II - let's look at silver?
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Let's Plan the Second Iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project! [closed]
In case you missed the first one, check out the se-quality-project tag. The quality project isn't one that we plan to ever finish, it's perennial and kicks in every 18 months or so after we've had ...
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What privilege should 30k users get?
The last time we lifted the level cap was in 2015. In 2014, we added a unilateral close-as-duplicate power for gold tag badge holders, but no new reputation level. So we've been thinking about giving ...
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Help us identify new roles for community members
Update 2 (March 6, 23)
We made a shortlist of the most promising suggestions from the answers provided, and we then shared our findings with Philippe Beaudette, our VP of Community. After some ...
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New three-tiered badge idea: Explainer →Refiner → Illuminator
The difference between a poor or meh question and a stellar question can often simply be someone understanding it and providing it a great answer. I can't begin to count the number of times I've ...
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Huge close votes review queue on Stack Overflow [closed]
Today, the size of the close-votes queue is 55k questions and growing. Is that a problem?
Which action could be taken to clean it up? It seems to be growing faster than Stack Overflow members ...
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What can we do to stop bad edits getting accepted?
A worryingly high number of bad suggested edits get accepted. For example:
edits that add bad formatting to random words
edits that break the formatting of a block of code
edits that add wrong tags
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Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders
In order to increase the efficiency with which poor quality questions are closed, it could make sense to have weighted close votes for a small subset of qualified users.
A very good way to measure ...
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Should trusted close/reopen voters and reviewers have their votes weighted more than others'?
In Q3 2021 I finalized my research around three vote close/reopen and I was pretty happy with the outcomes - as were the sites that got to test it out. While the benefit to each site was different, ...
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Is using reputation to scale the number of close votes the best way?
When we were working on the last se-quality-project, I wanted to introduce something into the review system that I still feel is pretty lacking. There's no way to really track your efficacy as a ...
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Improving Review Queues - Design overview II: Changing review bans and other new features
This is one of three project announcements for Improving Review Queues. We’ve summarized the project objectives and goals here.
As a reminder, this project is still in the early stages of discovery. ...
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Comprehensive question quality blocks now enabled everywhere
Questions are the lifeblood of any Stack Exchange site. But asking good questions can be difficult, and while most people start off doing it poorly, some never get better. For years now, when sites ...
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Proposal to make close votes scale with rep
There have been several proposals for how we’re ever going to get a handle on the ever-mounting
close-vote queue. Dupehammer has been especially successful, and there
have been several proposals ...
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Community team Q4/2021 Roadmap
This is just an FYI: I've just published the Q4 2021 Community team roadmap on the blog (and it's early, even!). I'm taking questions or comments here, or over there. :-)
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Let's give very-trusted users a Closehammer to go with their Dupehammer
I'm calling it a Closehammer rather than an Onholdhammer because... well, just look at how odd Onholdhammer looks.
I'm proposing that trusted users be given the ability to instantly place a question ...
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If bad AI content gets upvoted, is the voting system the problem?
Summary
If bad AI content gets upvoted, can we use that as an opportunity to understand & improve our voting system?
Should we focus more on the fact that bad AI content is bad, and not that it ...