Timeline for The highest rated question on this SE is a rant/opinion about an idiot; what does that tell me about asking good questions here? [closed]
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| May 10, 2017 at 20:30 | comment | added | user143703 | I fail to see how the score on a 6 year old post is somehow going to enlighten you as to how this site works now and whether this is a good fit for you. I'd suggest this site is not. | |
| May 10, 2017 at 10:46 | comment | added | Sven Mod | That question is yet another example why I believe that SF questions shouldn't ever appear on the list of Hot Network Questions. Once something land on there, people from other sites without any real reason to be on a site for professional system administration feel compelled to invade us and create a ruckus. In this case, it went viral far beyond SE. Oh, and naturally, once something is high on any list, it has good chances to further gather votes without this being really warranted due to the nature or quality of the question. | |
| May 10, 2017 at 5:03 | comment | added | HBruijn Mod | Who cares about the most popular question anyway? What you really should be worried about is getting the most usefull and best possible Answer to your current Question. If you're looking for good answers to common questions take a look at Canonical Q&A's | |
| May 10, 2017 at 3:52 | comment | added | Wesley | @DanWhaley Being that this is the internet, and anything that has entertainment value can go "viral", a question's (or answer's) voted-ness is not necessarily a sign of anything other than its votedness. If you had taken your example within context, you'd find that the question went viral, had also been linked to by many other sites, and as a result had an uncharacteristically high view count. A better idea about how to ask good questions would be to 1) Read our FAQ, and 2) Take our body of questions as a whole. Say, the top 100 or so. | |
| May 10, 2017 at 3:48 | comment | added | YetAnotherRandomUser | How could they not be? Isn't that the whole point of SEs vs other systems? Objectivity and consistency? | |
| May 10, 2017 at 3:44 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | Why do you think the top-rated question is at all statistically relevant to what is typical on SF? | |
| May 10, 2017 at 3:42 | comment | added | YetAnotherRandomUser | As far as an inferential questions, it's more like I'm wondering why I should go to the Soup Nazi's place to get lunch. At this point, it's pretty obvious that I don't fit in to the technology SEs very well, and any attempts at figuring out why will probably get me perma-banned. However, I figured I would look around the SE to see if this SE could be a good fit, when I was flabbergasted at the top question. In other words, I'm testing the waters to see how Nazi-like the Soup Nazi is. | |
| May 10, 2017 at 3:38 | history | closed | EEAAMod | Opinion-based | |
| May 10, 2017 at 3:38 | answer | added | Shog9 | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 10, 2017 at 3:33 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | I've answered your explicit question below. Is there another implicit question you're hinting at that you'd like to ask as well? | |
| May 10, 2017 at 3:33 | answer | added | EEAAMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 10, 2017 at 3:13 | history | asked | YetAnotherRandomUser | CC BY-SA 3.0 |