4 ms·
If it's trivial to reach 50 rep by asking questions, how does it prevent unskilled developers from submitting corrections?
by fwip 7y ago
If it's trivial to reach 50 rep by asking questions, how does it prevent unskilled developers from submitting corrections?
- jodrellblank 7y agoUnskilled developers won't find it trivial. See the new question review queues for the kinds of questions submitted by people who can be bothered to sign up and try to participate for evidence towards this claim. e.g. right now there's one which isn't about programming it's about system administration, doesn't explain what they tried, and concludes with "it is not working" with no further details. This first-question is not likely to get upvoted. By being a minimum-competence filter it's not selecting in only the most skilled developers, it's selecting out huge swathes of people who don't want to do what stackoverflow wants its users to do. People who submit terrible contributions will fall below 50 rep and lose the ability to do so.