Timeline for answer to Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow by David Maze
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| Feb 3 at 16:08 | comment | added | David Maze | Looking at my flag list, the manual flags are a couple of days behind but have mostly been acted on, and mostly been marked "helpful", and mostly have resulted in the questions being deleted by a diamond moderator (but not necessarily staff). There are one or two that are still open (ex., not programming-related) and one or two that have odd responses. For a manual process it seems to be working, but this shouldn't need to be a manual process. | |
| Feb 3 at 15:33 | comment | added | user400654 | "I've consistently raised mod flags on these unanswerable questions, but the standard close dialog would be far better." have these flags been successful? that sounds like the primary kinds of "questions" this experiment was meant to surface, and of course wouldn't be good "questions" for the Q&A format... so i'd be surprised if these flags were actually resulting in them being deleted. | |
| Feb 3 at 13:34 | comment | added | VLAZ | "We could change the rules on the standard Q&A to allow (some) opinion-based questions." we do already. However, there is a problem with that - often enough even good subjective questions get closed. Some users are overzealous with "opinion-based" and are quick on the trigger as soon as they see something that requires expertise to answer. It's what the site is supposed to be for. Rather than a million questions about minor bugs - objectively answerable, yet mostly useless for a knowledge base. | |
| Feb 3 at 11:42 | history | answered | David Maze | CC BY-SA 4.0 |