Timeline for answer to We will launch the 1-rep voting experiment on Stack Overflow for 4–6 weeks, along with account creation prompts by Thomas Owens
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| Apr 3, 2024 at 21:25 | history | edited | starballMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2024 at 14:45 | comment | added | Thomas Owens | @Adriaan Maybe, but that's a flawed way of looking at it, as experienced users will say. Questions will still be closed and deleted, for example. And people complain about their questions being closed and deleted because they are really bad questions that don't belong. So driving up the number of upvotes or votes in general has no bearing on participation if people get frustrated and leave after having questions closed. | |
| Apr 3, 2024 at 14:41 | comment | added | Adriaan | I'd guess the rationale behind this experiment in order to "increase participation", is that more upvotes means more warm feeling in the bellies of new users. More warm feelings hopefully results in more users returning. | |
| Apr 3, 2024 at 14:39 | comment | added | Zoe - Save the data dump Mod | "The intent is to address "stagnating participation"" - if only there was another way to deal with that. They've been given many ideas to mitigate the decrease, ranging from trivial (re-reducing the answer rate limit back down to three minutes) to more complicated both publicly and internally, both related and unrelated to this change, all of which have been ignored. | |
| Apr 3, 2024 at 14:38 | comment | added | NathanOliver | I agree with the flawed testing premise. The bad actors can just wait, let the policy get updated because they didn't act badly, and then boom. | |
| Apr 3, 2024 at 14:36 | history | answered | Thomas Owens | CC BY-SA 4.0 |