Timeline for How can we measure the health of ServerFault?
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| Apr 15, 2021 at 1:07 | comment | added | Paul | @user9517 I'm not trying to turn this into an SO-bashing session, but I just posted a question over there that would be on-topic here at SF, however I thought it would be there because it's basically my inability to read through a spamassassin plugin. It was closed and you can see the reason: stackoverflow.com/questions/67094667/… | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 8:08 | comment | added | user9517 | @Paul See my last comment on the question above. SF is SO's Hell Desk. Most of the questions are asked by people who just want to get on with hacking their code. Using google and thinking is too time consuming for them and their primary goal. | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 17:02 | comment | added | Paul | @user9517 I have wondered if it is related to up-vote stinginess. If a new user comes in and asks questions only (as they are learning), my casual observation is that the questions tend not to get up-votes. Even when a question generates an answer that is accepted, and that answer gets up-votes, the question often does not. I do realize accepting an answer yields karma reward, but it's really slow going for new users. This means it takes longer to build up karma to gain access to things like review queues, and likely many never bother as it may appear unachievable. | |
| Apr 9, 2021 at 19:32 | comment | added | user9517 | @Paul It's not related to the review mines but the length of them is a consequence of the lack of people who play that part of the game. Thel ack of reviewers is a signal that things are less then good, | |
| Apr 9, 2021 at 13:51 | comment | added | Paul | @user9517 Is this related to the close votes review queue? There is a lot more in the review queues overall as compared to times past. I used to spend a lot of time in the review queues I am granted access to, but haven't in some time because reasons, and I wonder if attrition of reviewers is higher than previously. | |
| Apr 8, 2021 at 15:10 | comment | added | user9517 | How quickly bad/spam/duplicate questions get closed is also something to consider. My impression is that all categories hang around far too long as there just aren't enough people who care any more. | |
| Mar 24, 2021 at 9:22 | history | edited | Bob | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2021 at 16:20 | comment | added | Paul | @user9517 I often come here to search and usually find answers to my questions, so I don't even come in through a search engine. I do often leave upvotes, though I find I'm more generous than others when it comes to that. Also, it gives me great joy to see Michael Hampton returning, but he does often answer questions in a comment, which skews the above graph. Further, search engine answer boxes often include the relevant parts of an answer in the search result, meaning the user wouldn't even have clicked on the search result (or any, as is now a majority trend of "zero-clicking"). | |
| Mar 23, 2021 at 12:41 | history | edited | Bob | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 22, 2021 at 16:53 | comment | added | user9517 | One thing we don't know is how many people ask a question of $favoriteSearchEngine, get directed to SF, find the answer to their problem and move on (having viewed all of the relevant adverts etc.) . The widening gap between questions asked and answered is not good. I wonder what that would be like if Michael Hampton stopped playing the game. Maybe the folks at Octopus deploy can tell us whether their money was well spent in sponsoring the site ? | |
| Mar 22, 2021 at 15:45 | history | edited | Bob | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 22, 2021 at 15:34 | history | answered | Bob | CC BY-SA 4.0 |