Timeline for answer to Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow by STerliakov
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| Jan 7 at 21:11 | comment | added | NathanOliver | Done, posted at meta.stackoverflow.com/a/437887/4342498. cc @Hoid | |
| Dec 24, 2025 at 16:22 | comment | added | STerliakov | Oh, @NathanOliver I think you should report this bug separately for visibility, but at least it's now safe to assume an honest mistake and not malicious intent (as it seemed initially, at least to me). I'm only active in low-throughput tags so have never noticed that, I rarely see this banner at all. | |
| Dec 24, 2025 at 15:58 | comment | added | NathanOliver | @Hoid I I think I found the issue. When you get the n more new questions banner and you click on it to load the new questions, it will load and show OP baes Q's if that's what the new question is. If you then refresh, those go away. | |
| Dec 23, 2025 at 19:25 | comment | added | NathanOliver | @STerliakov Yes, I have experiments disabled and have seen these posts on the tag specific page since launch. Currently they are not displaying now and I have to activate the experiments to see them now. Guess they fixed it. | |
| Dec 23, 2025 at 19:11 | comment | added | starball Mod | a friendly reminder to please keep language respectful/professional | |
| Dec 23, 2025 at 18:32 | comment | added | STerliakov | Hm @NathanOliver have you disabled experiments? I haven't seen this crap for a while, so it could be some more subtle problem. | |
| Dec 23, 2025 at 16:43 | comment | added | NathanOliver | @Hoid I still see these posts on the C++ tag page: i.sstatic.net/JfuZIFP2.png | |
| Nov 24, 2025 at 22:23 | comment | added | Hoid StaffMod | This should be fixed now for sure. We had fixed it last week, but a few edge cases seemed to be slipping through. Let me know if you noticed them again, though. | |
| Nov 24, 2025 at 22:22 | history | edited | HoidStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2025 at 8:50 | comment | added | Lundin | @Hoid Thanks for responding. The main issue is indeed that the posts pop up in tag-filtered searches since that's how the vast majority of seasoned users interact with the site. The main stackoverflow.com "feed" is just suggesting irrelevant posts to everyone, so no veteran user that I know actually uses that one. As for hating the experiment... personally I like the idea but I don't like the implementation. But I see that a lot of veteran users that never participate on meta now show up to express criticism. Whenever that happens, it is usually a sign that fundamental site usage has derailed. | |
| Nov 12, 2025 at 15:09 | comment | added | Hoid StaffMod | @STerliakov That's really interesting. These opinion questions, even if mislabeled, are getting about 3x the engagement as regular Q&A (answers+comments), and my first assumption was that the additional label was making them stand out more. | |
| Nov 12, 2025 at 14:48 | comment | added | STerliakov | @Hoid you have to specifically look for those marks to notice them. I usually read the question title first, and this time is essentially wasted as soon as I see the label. There aren't that many "questions" of this kind to quickly train my eyes to ignore them immediately. A minor background color change would be much more prominent, allowing to skip those "questions" completely. But obviously it's better to fix the bug so that we never have to see them again. | |
| Nov 12, 2025 at 14:42 | comment | added | Hoid StaffMod | @lundin I get people not wanting to see it, but the labels are there on the questions; nobody has to click on them if they don't want to see it in tag-based searches in the interim. It's okay if you hate the experiment. I am not asking you to like it. | |
| Nov 12, 2025 at 14:40 | comment | added | Hoid StaffMod | @Lundin counterpoint, we didn't abandon this project. We are just prioritizing work according to impact. First, we fixed where it was leaking on the interested posts list, which went out last Thursday, I believe. Then we addressed where it showed up on the related posts list. I am pretty sure that fix went out Monday. Now we are working on it so it doesn't show up in tag-filtered searches. I am not a dev, so I am not gonna make any claims on complexity, but it is being worked on as well as half a dozen other bugs and improvements. | |
| Nov 12, 2025 at 9:01 | comment | added | Lundin | @Hoid And because of this critical bug, you have made every user who does not wish to participate in experimental alpha testing actively hostile against these questions, creating maximum badwill. So you have essentially killed the experiment here. Also if this was acknowledged as a bug on November the 3rd, why is it not fixed yet? This is a programmer site, you can't pretend that this is a complex thing to fix, because we won't buy that. It should not take 1 week to fix for a single dev let alone the whole department. So it really comes across as if this project too has simply been abandoned. | |
| Nov 3, 2025 at 21:00 | comment | added | Hoid StaffMod | It is indeed a bug, its being worked on. | |
| Nov 3, 2025 at 21:00 | history | edited | HoidStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2025 at 19:04 | comment | added | STerliakov | @Hoid could you label this as [bug] or [by-design] depending on the results of your investigation? I really hope it's a bug that will be fixed soon, but given how the community input was treated this year won't be terribly surprised to hear "yes, that's how it is supposed to work, you cannot opt-out everywhere". | |
| Nov 3, 2025 at 18:52 | comment | added | Jason S | How do I opt out? | |
| Oct 31, 2025 at 18:47 | comment | added | Ivan Petrov | Same here...how do I opt out?! | |
| Oct 31, 2025 at 13:41 | comment | added | STerliakov | @Hoid looks like I'm not that special, another report about the same at +10: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/436351/14401160 | |
| Oct 31, 2025 at 13:35 | comment | added | Hoid StaffMod | Weird I will flag this, seems to be blocking you from the ask flow, but not visibility. Thanks for flagging. My impression is that it should hide both. | |
| Oct 31, 2025 at 13:26 | comment | added | STerliakov | And it's still the same even if I enable experiments, so I'm lucky enough to not be one of those 10%? Then why do I see those questions at all? | |
| Oct 31, 2025 at 13:24 | comment | added | STerliakov | @Hoid just the usual editor, title-body-tags, no "type" select there. (tried hard refresh, logout-login, and two browsers) | |
| Oct 31, 2025 at 13:20 | comment | added | Hoid StaffMod | Hmm, real quick: when you hit the ask button, does it show the question type dropdown, or do you get the regular editor? | |
| Oct 31, 2025 at 12:50 | history | answered | STerliakov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
