Timeline for Should Server Fault stop accepting questions from unregistered users?
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| Jun 13 at 22:17 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | If y'all still feel that this change is desirable, I'd encourage y'all to start a new discussion on the topic | |
| Jun 13 at 22:16 | history | edited | SlateStaffMod |
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| Jun 11, 2014 at 16:18 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | @Shog9 I think it's time to un-defer and revisit this. | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 14:53 | comment | added | OC2PS | Let's grant that requiring registration will have a minuscule effect on the quality of questions. On the +ve side, all the evidence from voretaq7 shog9 and michael-hampton is clear: requiring registration does NOT reduce the number of questions. i.e. all the challenges to effectiveness of this solution are also arguments against potential negative impact on "ease of asking questions". I'd say let's implement a registration requirement. But set our expectations right - we won't be doing it for reducing bad question but for other benefits - community, participation, tracking, bans, etc | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 21:36 | answer | added | Shog9 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 21:36 | history | edited | Shog9 |
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| Sep 24, 2013 at 15:23 | answer | added | user179037 | timeline score: -7 | |
| Sep 20, 2013 at 17:27 | vote | accept | Michael HamptonMod | ||
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| Sep 20, 2013 at 16:44 | comment | added | Ward - Trying Codidact Mod | Here's their meta discussion: meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/4167/… | |
| Sep 20, 2013 at 16:43 | comment | added | Ward - Trying Codidact Mod | I'm not sure if this question or one of the other questions about "the future of SF" is most relevant, but there's an interesting - and very similar - discussion going on on English.SE about dealing with their version of "questions from non-professionals." They went so far as to start another SE site, specifically for people learning English to ask beginner questions, so that only the more advanced questions would stay on the original English.SE Now they're not sure that worked as well as they wanted and are discussing merging the two sites! | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 11:23 | comment | added | user9517 | @TheCleaner: Personally I don't care if someone is using a usernnnnnn name or something else but I do care about the quality. Having a usernnnnn name isn't a good indicator of poor quality. | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 0:56 | answer | added | Cypher | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 16, 2013 at 20:28 | comment | added | TheCleaner |
Even if 100% of the questions from un-registered users were good questions, there's a stigma associated with being unregistered. Seeing user9324901 screams "I don't really give an ish about your site or your members, just fix my issue." While there may be benefit for future views and a possible accept, it carries the air of a perfunctory question, blasted out to multiple Q&A sites in hopes of an answer. It's human nature to feel more connected to a user here with a "real name" vs. machine generated anonymity.
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| Sep 16, 2013 at 17:40 | comment | added | Cypher | Requiring registration will not change the number of bad questions. You will just be forcing bad users to create bad accounts to ask bad questions. | |
| Sep 16, 2013 at 16:38 | comment | added | user9517 | @MichaelHampton: That's not what I asked; but I don't see how you can measure this when it's really noise. | |
| Sep 16, 2013 at 16:36 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | @Iain Because it's much easier to make small changes and measure their impact than to make a whole lot of large changes and have no idea what the results are. | |
| Sep 16, 2013 at 16:34 | comment | added | user9517 |
@MichaelHampton: Perhaps if you presented the whole set of solutions rathyer than drip feeding them ...
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| Sep 16, 2013 at 14:30 | answer | added | TheCleaner | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 15, 2013 at 3:21 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | I never said it was a complete solution to all our bad questions. At best it is only a small part of an overall solution. | |
| Sep 15, 2013 at 3:19 | comment | added | Abhi Beckert | Does this actually solve the problem on SO however? I see a lot of people there asking bad questions with an account they clearly created just to ask question. Sometimes it looks like the same person is creating multiple accounts so they can ask the same question more than once. I don't know what the solution is, but I don't think requiring an account is effective. I wonder if it should be mandatory to have a non-trivial amount of rep before being allowed to ask a question. Maybe you have to answer questions and get upvoted first, or have a high rep on some other stack exchange site. | |
| Sep 14, 2013 at 7:26 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/ServerFault/status/378781714845552640 | ||
| Sep 14, 2013 at 7:16 | comment | added | user9517 | The 57% actually represents just 4 questions per day. This is dwarfed by the 36 questions per day from registered users. | |
| Sep 14, 2013 at 5:43 | answer | added | voretaq7Mod | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 14, 2013 at 5:20 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | Before y'all get too excited over the possibility of a 13% reduction in bad questions, read this too (specifically, see now tiny 13% is). | |
| Sep 14, 2013 at 2:16 | history | edited | Michael HamptonMod |
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| Sep 14, 2013 at 1:34 | comment | added | Shog9 | Before y'all get too excited over the possibility of a 13% reduction in bad questions, read this... | |
| Sep 14, 2013 at 0:52 | answer | added | MDMarra | timeline score: 25 | |
| Sep 14, 2013 at 0:19 | history | asked | Michael HamptonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |