Timeline for As long-term users mature on the site, do they get less patient?
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| Feb 23, 2012 at 21:28 | comment | added | uSlackr | serverfault.com/about Second paragraph - middle. This isn't a question of how to be successful in IT - It's a question of how to keep SF a viable/vibrant community. (I agree there is a relationship at the individual level) | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 21:14 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @uSlackr I'm not sure where you got that line from (AH! The about page!), but "[W]e can build good answers to every question a system administrator or desktop support professional might have." (emphasis mine :). Professionals do not scream "HALP! HALP! IZ B0RKEN!" without doing some research first. As others have said, in this field putting zero effort into your question does not normally motivate others to want to help you (or if we do the help is "Go do some research and come back if you still have questions.") | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 20:56 | comment | added | uSlackr | From the about page: "we can build good answers to every question a system administrator or desktop support professional might have." (emphasis mine). Sounds to me that the creators want to bring content into the site, not push it out to google. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 20:48 | comment | added | Sven | @Iain: I know, it was just a bad example... | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 20:42 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | @SvenW: Shell scripting is generally on topic. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 18:48 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | To throw some data into the discussion: Our asking and answering rate has been relatively consistent since about 2010. Our close rate has definitely increased over time, and our year-over-year close/delete rate has substantially increased, however much of this is related to our cleanup (closing/locking/deleting) old off-topic questions, and seems to come in a periodic surge of activity as @SvenW alluded to, and if the general trend holds there should be less closings happening soon. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 18:38 | comment | added | Sven | @uSlackr: Also, I think that we actually needed to rise the bar with regard to topicality. This is a consequence of the ever growing fragmentation of StackExchange and means that e.g. a Linux shell script question that wouldn't be a problem here two years ago is now clearly off-topic. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 18:38 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @uSlackr I agree we are trying to raise the bar -- I just happen to feel that's a good thing for the site. The bar was effectively non-existent in the Good Old Days (Shopping questions were OK, even welcomed, Home use questions weren't aggressively kicked to SuperUser, we tried to work out complex DBA and security stuff here). Times have changed though: Shopping questions are definitively off-topic network-wide, Home use is always the province of SuperUser, we have DBA, IT Security, and AskUbuntu for narrowly-focused sub-topics. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 18:36 | comment | added | Sven | @uSlackr: I guess that we are currently experiencing a phase where we get relatively few good questions and a load of crap. This might be an unfortunate side effect of better rankings in Google for various search terms, but it might lead to the impression of shorter patience from top users. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 18:19 | comment | added | uSlackr | I think we ARE getting actively annoyed with new posters. My other concern is we are raising the bar, not holding it steady. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 18:11 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @MDMarra If someone wants to jump up and say we have a problem with the number of close/delete votes they can post their own answer :-P -- I'm just pointing out that we're aggressive about making bad things go away and less inclined toward fixing them than I'd (personally) like to see. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 18:07 | comment | added | MDMarra | Tricky move putting the dissenting view in a comment. You can't -1 a comment. :) | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 18:05 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | I will of course defend the counter-point: Since getting my diamond I've seen how aggressive we are as a site in blasting half-formed questions into the void. Some tolerance and hand-holding is needed (and I think as a site we could do better at helping people fix their lousy questions). The fine line we have to walk is determining if the question (post-fixup) would really be worth having around. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 18:01 | history | answered | voretaq7Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |