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StackExchange is the reddit of Q and A. You can find just about anything, and even start a new one if you find it's missing. The important part is answer percen

by hashhar 10y ago

StackExchange is the reddit of Q and A. You can find just about anything, and even start a new one if you find it's missing. The important part is answer percentages, quality of answers and the behaviour of people. StackExchange websites generally excel at that.

saycheese 10y ago
Stack Exchange has had over 100,000+ communities started in some form, but there are only 162 that made it and still exist, so while it's true they're very good at doing Q&A for some topics, they've failed at the majority of them.
- fabian2k 10y ago
  Where did you get the 100,000+ number from? I don't think there were more than a few dozen sites that were created in the Stack Exchange Area 51 process that were closed down. If you count Stack Exchange 1.0 sites when they licensed the software to other communities, there are probably a few hundred more. But I don't see how you could arrive at 100,000.
  - saycheese 10y ago
    Proposal IDs started at 1 and if you sort the list by "most recent" and look at the ID, it's over 100k: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliamentary-procedure https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliament...
    - fabian2k 10y ago
      The ID you're looking at isn't just for proposals, it's used for every post on the A51 site. So this number doesn't mean there were 100,000 proposals. And most proposals are seriously terrible and never attract more than a handful of users. Even the real number of proposals on A51 wouldn't mean all that much.
      - saycheese 10y ago
        Example URL: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliamentary-procedure https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliament... What other IDs/posts besides proposals are under "area51.stackexchange.com/proposals"?
        Avenger42 10y ago
        Try this link instead: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106514 https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106514 If you change the proposal # to 106514, it instead redirects to your link with 106514 as the question instead: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliamentary-procedure/106514#106514 https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliament... So that ID is used for both proposals and questions within area51.
        saycheese 10y ago
        You're right, for example ID 7 is a question, linked to proposal ID 4 - and you can't even iterate over the IDs to get a count, since it appears they delete the questions with the proposals, but list the deleted URL as a proposal. Example of a deleted URL: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3 https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3
        teh_klev 10y ago
        You can search for "closed:1" in the search box and that apparently lists all the closed proposals. That search returns 59 proposals that were suggested then closed. However there seems to be two types of "Closed". I'd also search for just "closed" and in the results there are proposals with a grey box and the word "Closed" which aren't in the "closed:1" results. There's eleven of those. So over time it appears there's been 70 or so proposals suggested that never made it to beta launch. There may be more that age, eventually fall off the front end and are "deleted" and possibly not visible to low rep users, much in the same way the rest of the sites work, i.e. you need at least 10k to be able to see deleted posts [0]. I've only got 1350 rep in Area51 so there may be very old deleted proposals I can't see. [0]: http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools
- teh_klev 10y ago
  > they've failed at the majority of them. That's not SE's failure. SE has a fairly rigorous filtering process for judging whether a Q&A community is likely to survive. Filtering out hundreds, if not thousands, of community ideas that will never get off the ground isn't failure on their part, it's the failure of these communities to reach a critical mass to be successful. Once a Q&A idea makes it past "Area51"[0] and enters beta, which is still no guarantee of graduating to a fully launched and themed site, the SE team do actively nurture these communities to try and make them successful. [0]: http://area51.stackexchange.com/ http://area51.stackexchange.com/
- lupin_sansei 10y ago
  there was a short amount of time where anyone could create their own Stack Exchange site, but they ended up cancelling that scheme and carefully selected ones to be created now via Area51 https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/04/changes-to-stack-exchange/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/04/changes-to-stack-exchange...

by hashhar 10y ago

saycheese 10y ago

Stack Exchange has had over 100,000+ communities started in some form, but there are only 162 that made it and still exist, so while it's true they're very good at doing Q&A for some topics, they've failed at the majority of them.

fabian2k 10y ago
Where did you get the 100,000+ number from? I don't think there were more than a few dozen sites that were created in the Stack Exchange Area 51 process that were closed down. If you count Stack Exchange 1.0 sites when they licensed the software to other communities, there are probably a few hundred more. But I don't see how you could arrive at 100,000.
- saycheese 10y ago
  Proposal IDs started at 1 and if you sort the list by "most recent" and look at the ID, it's over 100k: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliamentary-procedure https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliament...
  - fabian2k 10y ago
    The ID you're looking at isn't just for proposals, it's used for every post on the A51 site. So this number doesn't mean there were 100,000 proposals. And most proposals are seriously terrible and never attract more than a handful of users. Even the real number of proposals on A51 wouldn't mean all that much.
    - saycheese 10y ago
      Example URL: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliamentary-procedure https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliament... What other IDs/posts besides proposals are under "area51.stackexchange.com/proposals"?
      - Avenger42 10y ago
        Try this link instead: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106514 https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106514 If you change the proposal # to 106514, it instead redirects to your link with 106514 as the question instead: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliamentary-procedure/106514#106514 https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106513/parliament... So that ID is used for both proposals and questions within area51.
        saycheese 10y ago
        You're right, for example ID 7 is a question, linked to proposal ID 4 - and you can't even iterate over the IDs to get a count, since it appears they delete the questions with the proposals, but list the deleted URL as a proposal. Example of a deleted URL: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3 https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3
        teh_klev 10y ago
        You can search for "closed:1" in the search box and that apparently lists all the closed proposals. That search returns 59 proposals that were suggested then closed. However there seems to be two types of "Closed". I'd also search for just "closed" and in the results there are proposals with a grey box and the word "Closed" which aren't in the "closed:1" results. There's eleven of those. So over time it appears there's been 70 or so proposals suggested that never made it to beta launch. There may be more that age, eventually fall off the front end and are "deleted" and possibly not visible to low rep users, much in the same way the rest of the sites work, i.e. you need at least 10k to be able to see deleted posts [0]. I've only got 1350 rep in Area51 so there may be very old deleted proposals I can't see. [0]: http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools
teh_klev 10y ago
> they've failed at the majority of them. That's not SE's failure. SE has a fairly rigorous filtering process for judging whether a Q&A community is likely to survive. Filtering out hundreds, if not thousands, of community ideas that will never get off the ground isn't failure on their part, it's the failure of these communities to reach a critical mass to be successful. Once a Q&A idea makes it past "Area51"[0] and enters beta, which is still no guarantee of graduating to a fully launched and themed site, the SE team do actively nurture these communities to try and make them successful. [0]: http://area51.stackexchange.com/ http://area51.stackexchange.com/
lupin_sansei 10y ago
there was a short amount of time where anyone could create their own Stack Exchange site, but they ended up cancelling that scheme and carefully selected ones to be created now via Area51 https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/04/changes-to-stack-exchange/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/04/changes-to-stack-exchange...