Timeline for Are we getting out-of-hand with all of the sub-communities?
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| Jan 6, 2012 at 7:40 | comment | added | user9517 | @JefFerland: Voting on SF is erratic and sometimes perverse. If that question hadn't mentioned $EvilEmpireOfYourChoice it would have been closed as off topic with a much lower (if any) number of votes. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 20:46 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Jeff, every SE site gets its share of highly upvoted ridiculous or wrong answers. Of course those on a given site may not even be aware of just how wrong some answers are, as you are hinting at in regards to SF. Also, as pointed out in one of the comments to the linked question, upvotes are no indication of whether or not it's on topic. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 17:16 | comment | added | Jeff Ferland | @voretaq7 One counterpoint: Security.SE has a lot of professionals who are focused on that. When answers from SF are migrated to us or we come here looking, we sometimes see ridiculous or wrong answers that are highly upvoted. Also, we were recently home to highly voted yet closed as off-topic question: security.stackexchange.com/questions/10340/… (serverfault.com/questions/345962/…) | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 16:55 | comment | added | Rory Alsop | @voretaq7 - definitely try it by tags. I use 30-odd SE sites, so it wouldn't be useful to visit them all and trawl through, so I have a tag set which I look at a couple of times a day and follow the links to whichever site has the question. I also do a fair bit of 'ignored tags' on some sites just to help with this. It just cuts down the 'noise' to a better level. | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 23:18 | comment | added | voretaq7 | This is especially true of security.SE and dba.SE -- Both are highly relevant to sysadmins; Neither site has a signal-to-noise ratio (when viewed from a "relevant to my job" standpoint) that keeps me going there daily. | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 21:36 | history | answered | John Gardeniers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |