Timeline for answer to How can we stop failing the users who we actually want to join, and remain as, members of our community? by Bryan Oakley
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| Jun 20, 2020 at 4:33 | history | edited | Bryan Oakley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
changed "help.stackoverflow.com" to "mentor.stackoverflow.com"
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| Jun 20, 2020 at 1:34 | history | edited | Bryan Oakley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 20, 2020 at 1:33 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | @philipxy: I understand what you are saying, but what you suggest isn’t what I had in mind. | |
| Jun 20, 2020 at 0:33 | comment | added | philipxy |
help.stackoverflow.com already exists. It is stackoverflow.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion+closed%3Ayes
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| Jun 13, 2020 at 0:09 | comment | added | mickmackusa Mod | My Stack Overflow a̶d̶d̶i̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ volunteerism is already stretched to the upper limit while monitoring the SE sites that I care about. Having yet another cluster of content only forces my attention to spread further. | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 22:25 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | @mickmackusa: I think you missed the point. "this place" would not become a red hot mess. It already is a red hot mess of those types of questions. The point is to move those to a different site specifically designed for these types of questions, and they would automatically be deleted in a very short time if not improved. Thanks for the feedback, though. | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 21:33 | comment | added | mickmackusa Mod | You lost me at: "No question should be off-limits no matter how poorly written or how many times the same question has been asked. No question should be marked as a duplicate (though links to originals can appear in answers), no question should be closeable by anybody except perhaps the question-asker.". This place would become a red hot mess. | |
| Jun 11, 2020 at 22:25 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Active reading [<http://stackoverflow.com/legal/trademark-guidance> (the last section) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet>].
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| Jun 11, 2020 at 16:56 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | @fbueckert: we already have a flood of "help me now!" questions. This helps with that problem by giving us a place to move them so that they don't clutter up stackoverflow. And since they are automatically deleted after a week on this proposed side, I don't see that as a problem. Thanks for the feedback, though. | |
| Jun 11, 2020 at 16:31 | comment | added | fbueckert | Forgive me, but I don't hold out a lot of hope that that is sustainable; it quickly devolves into expertise burnout, a flood of, "help me now!" questions, and eventually, the death of the site. You can see that in any tech support forum prior to SO. | |
| Jun 11, 2020 at 16:28 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | @fbueckert: That's a fair question. I expect people who like helping other people will frequent that site. There are a lot of people who enjoy helping absolute newbies. | |
| Jun 11, 2020 at 16:25 | comment | added | fbueckert | I'm curious who you expect to frequent such a site. It reminds me an awful lot of forums; the very thing SO was created to replace. | |
| Jun 11, 2020 at 15:54 | history | answered | Bryan Oakley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |