Timeline for Answering - a race
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 9, 2012 at 15:15 | vote | accept | cyberx86 | ||
| Jan 9, 2012 at 5:14 | comment | added | cyberx86 | I think it is that most people just don't read random questions (and answers) - they read a question for a purpose (and great example with the 'contrast' - common marketing technique). Long Tail: partially agree - I like the thourough answers (both when looking for a solution and posting one) as it provides an opportunity to look into the material in more depth and learn something new. As for the canonical answers, I have found that are sometimes duplicated to a comm. wiki. Excellent points overall - thanks for sharing your perspective. | |
| Jan 9, 2012 at 5:14 | comment | added | cyberx86 | Answerers: agree, although, I hope that there is the thrill of solving a puzzle in there somewhere (and maybe even helping someone else) - although those are harder to quantify. Electorate: paritially agree - only the top ~300 voters (out of 69k users!) have more than 250 votes. It is usually easy to distinguish utter refuse from the rest, but to judge correctness on two plausible answers does require some knowledge of the topic. [...continued] | |
| Jan 9, 2012 at 5:13 | comment | added | cyberx86 | Thanks for the response. In retrospect I believe my own experience on the site does agree with yours. I have found myself expecting there to be multiple answers by the time I post mine, but invariably this is not true. Questioner: agree - although, I usually post 'short' quick answers as a comment (possibly because my academic background cares more about the why/how than just the solution) - your explanation does highlight some harm in that though. [...continued] | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 12:33 | history | answered | sysadmin1138Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |