Timeline for answer to How often are closed questions re-opened? by Bruno
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 25, 2014 at 13:00 | comment | added | kapa | I understand now. I have not seen much of these questions closed yet though :). | |
| Jul 25, 2014 at 12:55 | comment | added | Bruno | @kapa I wasn't talking about rescuing people, I was talking about re-opening more obscure questions than are considered unclear (or almost duplicates) by most, but for which more expert users can see where the subtly is. | |
| Jul 25, 2014 at 12:38 | comment | added | kapa | I don't think SO wants to rescue anyone. SO provides answers, not hand-holding. If you don't understand the answers, SO cannot help (think about an university as an analogy). Also, 90% (or more) of those reoccuring questions happen not because the OP found the previous questions and could not understand, but because the OP made no effort at all to find them. I close a lot of dupes, and most of the time the OP is actually helped by the dupe. | |
| Jul 25, 2014 at 12:28 | comment | added | Bruno | @kapa But if SO really is about the long tail programming question (and also considering that some high-rep answers complain they're always answering the same type of easy questions), it's those questions that are harder and unclear to most that need to be rescued. The majority of close voters don't necessarily get that difference. (I don't necessarily agree with that blog entry, by the way, since SO really isn't adapted for CW or collaborative authorship, but that's a different problem.) | |
| Jul 25, 2014 at 12:25 | comment | added | kapa | I sometimes visit the reopen queue and unfortunately "Leave Closed" seems to be the right choice more regularly than "Reopen". Of course mistakes happen, but I see far more questions that should be closed but are open than ones that are closed but should be reopened. The former poison the whole site and community, while the latter is only an inconvience for a single person (which is unfortunate and should be avoided of course). | |
| Jul 25, 2014 at 11:45 | history | answered | Bruno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |