Timeline for answer to Why the backlash against poor questions? by bearvarine
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| Jul 2, 2014 at 16:41 | comment | added | trlkly | @Garrat To get people to do that, you have to give them a reason to want to. I also know other sites where I can get more friendly answers, albeit at a slower pace and some cruft thrown in. But I need something better than their own well being to risk having the same people overwhelm a site that works well, causing the same problems you are having here. The last thing I want is for these small friendly places to become large and lose their friendliness. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 3:14 | comment | added | Gimpy | And folks like you will be doing everyone else a big favor if you just continue to hang out in SO; it's best if you all congregate in one place and keep earning your gold stars like good boys. | |
| May 30, 2014 at 13:19 | comment | added | Gerrat | @Kandor. Please, please pass on your list of "less unfriendly places" where you can have ad-hoc questions answered to the countless posters who don't even bother googling for their answer before posting on SO. You'll be doing both them and SO a great service. | |
| May 29, 2014 at 13:54 | comment | added | Gimpy | "Count me out." Take it from somebody who's been on both sides of this before: consider it a gift -- seriously. Better to be run off than to spend countless hours of your life trying to win the electronic equivalent of those gold stars teachers would stick next to your name on a piece of poster board in elementary school. There are other, less unfriendly places where you can have ad-hoc questions answered and of course you can still get information from SO via Google without having to deal with the cyber bullies who convince themselves they're doing good by treating others badly. | |
| May 23, 2014 at 0:09 | comment | added | duplode | "the end result is curated and of reasonably high quality, and extremely useful and easy to find things in." As in SO. And, just like here, there is a divide in Wikipedia between newcomers and regulars, with analogous complaints about clueless noobs and aggressive modding. If anything, the issue is far more serious at Wikipedia, as editor retention is a real concern over there. | |
| May 22, 2014 at 22:32 | comment | added | bearvarine | Yes indeed there is controversy on the "talk" pages of Wikipedia. But that's not my main point -- the point is the end result is curated and of reasonably high quality, and extremely useful and easy to find things in. | |
| May 22, 2014 at 19:22 | comment | added | duplode | "Wikipedia manages to curate all their content and keep it high quality without raising the ire of all their contributors". I suggest you actually spend some time there to see if your assumptions are true. | |
| May 22, 2014 at 15:48 | history | answered | bearvarine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |