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put on hold as primarily opinion-based by Xavierjazz, Olli, Excellll, HackToHell, Tog 3 hours ago Many good questions generate some degree of opinion

by pygy_ 13y ago

put on hold as primarily opinion-based by Xavierjazz, Olli, Excellll, HackToHell, Tog 3 hours ago Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question. Stack exchange is broken. The question mixes up uniform distribution and randomness, but the answers are factual. There's little to no opinion involved here.

df07 13y ago
Give the system time to work. It's already been taken off hold.
- cruise02 13y ago
  No! A question got closed! The whole thing must be broken!
  - pygy_ 13y ago
    Hyperbole sometimes helps to get the point across... The problem with Stack exchange is that it conflates heavy site usage with domain experience and maturity. Avidity for imaginary internet points and maturity are at best orthogonal.
    - batguano 13y ago
      Excellent point, and well phrased. Still, I find the whole stack exchange system to be incredibly useful, including the original post. (Edit: And it looks like you do, too, since you point out the information is factual.)
    - bronsoja 13y ago
      As a general rule across the web, I'd agree with you. Although, I feel like on StackExcahge (or at least SO) those with the highest scores typically gave good answers in their domain as judged by their community and would not commonly give any answers outside their domain that could be voted up simply based on user rep alone. I don't really have any hard data on this, it's opinion based on seeing extremely good answers from high rep people regularly, and not being able to recall seeing poor answers from high rep users voted highly when they aren't actually useful.

by pygy_ 13y ago

df07 13y ago

Give the system time to work. It's already been taken off hold.

cruise02 13y ago
No! A question got closed! The whole thing must be broken!
- pygy_ 13y ago
  Hyperbole sometimes helps to get the point across... The problem with Stack exchange is that it conflates heavy site usage with domain experience and maturity. Avidity for imaginary internet points and maturity are at best orthogonal.
  - batguano 13y ago
    Excellent point, and well phrased. Still, I find the whole stack exchange system to be incredibly useful, including the original post. (Edit: And it looks like you do, too, since you point out the information is factual.)
  - bronsoja 13y ago
    As a general rule across the web, I'd agree with you. Although, I feel like on StackExcahge (or at least SO) those with the highest scores typically gave good answers in their domain as judged by their community and would not commonly give any answers outside their domain that could be voted up simply based on user rep alone. I don't really have any hard data on this, it's opinion based on seeing extremely good answers from high rep people regularly, and not being able to recall seeing poor answers from high rep users voted highly when they aren't actually useful.