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My specific work community has a Slack with a few thousand people and a few active hundred people. We've come to the conclusion that slacks 90day retention mess
by greazy 2y ago
My specific work community has a Slack with a few thousand people and a few active hundred people. We've come to the conclusion that slacks 90day retention message policy is a good thing. It allows new and old to reask and reiscussion topics.
SO should do something similar. Throw out all the mods, all the questions and start fresh every X number of years. No idea if it will work but tossing out the current mods to bring in new ones would change the flow.
- arp242 2y agoSo that's the other extreme end, and that would get repetitive for the people answering questions. Because in spite of the overzealousness of marking questions as duplicate from some people, some questions really do get asked over and over and over again. Also: Stack Overflow is intended to be a long-term useful repository of question and answers. You enter "how do I frob a baz in foo?" in $search_engine, and the idea is you'll end up on Stack Overflow which answers that exact question. I have sometimes ended up on some of my own answers from years ago like this.
- greazy 2y agoIt would be for sure an interesting experiments. Repetitive? No not necessarily. The refresh would happen could periodicaly, but the core functionally wouldn't change. The old answers can no longer be used as the basis for duplicates, a new one must be created ( that brings a slew of problems, such as sniping for getting magic points). But the refresh of PEOPLE (mods) is where its needed the most. What is wrong with duplicate questions though? If the response - yes but my use case is a tad different and its not covered by the linked solution, then dialogue should flow not restricted