Timeline for answer to Stack Overflow fails to promote well-researched, well-written, but difficult questions by OverLordGoldDragon
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| Aug 13, 2020 at 11:23 | comment | added | BDL | Given how few people are willing to do reviews, even when they are above 10k, a new review queue doesn't sound like a good idea. | |
| Aug 13, 2020 at 10:31 | comment | added | OverLordGoldDragon | @l4mpi Admittedly I know next to nothing about Triage as I don't partake in it, so the practical side of my specific suggestion is unknown to me - but the idea stands; how to reward explicitly should be its own matter. | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 8:52 | comment | added | l4mpi | This would never work. Just take a look at Triage, where absolute dumpster fires of questions still get heaps of "seems fine" votes, sometimes from 10k+ users. Everything more complex than a typo would be rated high quality. And should that not be the natural outcome, then expect it to be the mandated outcome by SO after the askers complain on twitter that it's so unwelcoming that their garbage question isn't seen as high quality... | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 20:49 | comment | added | Roberto Caboni | I wrote in my comments to RobertS answer (have a look at them) before reading this answer: I would have offered a +10 upthumb if I could, as the lack of upvotes is exactly the root of the problem. I've seen a lot of emphasis to the importance of downvotes, lately, and it seems that the importance of upvotes (especially on questions) has been forgotten. As far as I can see looking to ancient questions it was different in the past: questions used to receive a lot of upvotes. Were they great quality questions? Not at all! Nowadays many of them would be closed in a couple of minutes.. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 15:01 | comment | added | OverLordGoldDragon | @MisterMiyagi Fair points, but the idea is "something better than nothing" - and currently there's precisely nothing systematic in place to reward question quality. A Python gold badger yesterday marked a Keras question as duplicate, and the duplicate was barely relevant - so the current close system isn't perfect either. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 14:59 | comment | added | OverLordGoldDragon | @Gimby I did mean them, and you're right - hence why I proposed the queue to lift the burden. Perhaps we could have an entirely separate set of moderators, exclusively for quality review - but that seems fetched at this point. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 14:42 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | I feel like the general idea of giving more weight to experienced users' rating is good. However, the real question then is how to actually do that without just shifting the problem. A review queue just does not fit – close-votes and such are based on formal characteristics, not quality. SO's voting is based on popularity/quantity, not expertise/quality – which is precisely what this question is about, by the way. There are lots of tags (e.g. python) where having a silver/gold batch is no statement of quality at all. Boosting the importance of such users might just increase the problem. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 13:40 | comment | added | Gimby | "have moderators upvote posts" - unclear what a "moderator" is here. Should we assume you mean site user, since we're basically all moderators? You can't possibly mean diamond moderators, there are not nearly enough of those assimilated into the collective to make any kind of a dent. Reviewing quality takes domain knowledge to even further subdivide that small pool. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 11:06 | comment | added | galdin | I like where this is coming from. Not sure about implementing something like this, but it'll be nice if SO can shift focus from disincentivizing poor questions to incentivizing good questions. Maybe this doesn't even need a queue. Upvotes from tag-badge holders could, for instance, bump a question's quality rating. And the home page could take quality rating into consideration when showing questions... just a thought. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 10:56 | comment | added | Cerbrus | I think we have enough review queues as it is. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 10:45 | history | answered | OverLordGoldDragon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |