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I can comment on this from the "other side" since I have discussed this on meta. The problem is that answering questions which are borderline low quality/too s

by edem 8y ago

I can comment on this from the "other side" since I have discussed this on meta. The problem is that answering questions which are borderline low quality/too specific, etc or need imorovement before it can be answered are usually frowned upon because it encourages the asker to ask more low quality questions. The abuse you got is not OK though. If I comment at all on such questions it is always polite. What I think is also a big oroblem is closing questions as duplicates which are not duplicates. As with every system I think the incentives are the culprit so I expect SO to improve on this soon. They should be able to since they have all the data to do so

learnstats2 8y ago
Why do "low quality" questions matter? I don't believe "low quality" is really a problem. Stack Exchange could have dealt with this by developing a mechanism for identifying and promoting general and well-written questions to search engines, and so on. People sometimes have specific or incompletely formulated questions, and people sometimes enjoy figuring out answers to those questions. By stamping on these situations, Stack Exchange quickly removed almost all of its potential contributor base.
- edem 8y ago
  > Why do "low quality" questions matter? As I have said it encourages additional low quality questions which is more work for the mods.
  - vk23 8y ago
    > As I have said it encourages additional low quality questions which is more work for the mods. "low quality" question could just be marked as such and kept mostly unmodorated. By marking them there is also an incentive to produce "high quality" questions. You could also make badges and reputation around it so asking good questions gets more rewarding. Also, answering those "low quality" can really help the asker to understand his problem better and improve his problem solving ability, so maybe the next time he can provide better information in his question. If you just close the question and tell people to go away you will just scare people off (which btw also leads to a smaller number of mods)

by edem 8y ago

learnstats2 8y ago

Why do "low quality" questions matter? I don't believe "low quality" is really a problem. Stack Exchange could have dealt with this by developing a mechanism for identifying and promoting general and well-written questions to search engines, and so on. People sometimes have specific or incompletely formulated questions, and people sometimes enjoy figuring out answers to those questions. By stamping on these situations, Stack Exchange quickly removed almost all of its potential contributor base.

edem 8y ago
> Why do "low quality" questions matter? As I have said it encourages additional low quality questions which is more work for the mods.
- vk23 8y ago
  > As I have said it encourages additional low quality questions which is more work for the mods. "low quality" question could just be marked as such and kept mostly unmodorated. By marking them there is also an incentive to produce "high quality" questions. You could also make badges and reputation around it so asking good questions gets more rewarding. Also, answering those "low quality" can really help the asker to understand his problem better and improve his problem solving ability, so maybe the next time he can provide better information in his question. If you just close the question and tell people to go away you will just scare people off (which btw also leads to a smaller number of mods)