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Careful, this maybe isn't the correct place for telling everybody how easily you can crush them : ) > What you really need are more voters voting. Not sure how

by eitland 12y ago

Careful, this maybe isn't the correct place for telling everybody how easily you can crush them : ) > What you really need are more voters voting. Not sure how you get there, though. I guess a whole lot of the people who could have helped you left long ago because of your fellow moderators. A reasonable first step would be by adjusting the attitude. Maybe part of the problem is we just don't see all those "primarily opinion based" and "ugly discussions" questions that seems to be oh such a serious problem. We definitely see a whole lot of the most useful questions closed, often for technicalities. It doesn't exactly encourage participation, does it? HN somehow seems to be better at dealing with the problems without scaring good community members away. Of course HN has issues as well but so far the moderation team is doing a very good job of keeping politics and promotion away while leaving to the broader community to vote if something is interesting or not.

aaronchall 12y ago
Yes it's definitely difficult to get a foot-hold on the site, now isn't it. Maybe they need a real sort of wiki, or some sort of discussion community built around them. Seems like they started doing that, then killed it. The problem with discussion boards is that it is absolutely painful to dig through a post until you stumble on a solution, and even then, you're in no way sure it's a good solution. They need to harness that opinion/discussion/off-topic-subject energy in a way that doesn't work against their strategy. I think they are losing a lot of opportunity along the way.
- acjohnson55 12y ago
  They need to harness that opinion/discussion/off-topic-subject energy in a way that doesn't work against their strategy. I think they are losing a lot of opportunity along the way. I totally agree. This manifests itself in the worst way at http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ http://programmers.stackexchange.com/. Or at least it did when I bothered with that site at all.

by eitland 12y ago

aaronchall 12y ago

Yes it's definitely difficult to get a foot-hold on the site, now isn't it. Maybe they need a real sort of wiki, or some sort of discussion community built around them. Seems like they started doing that, then killed it. The problem with discussion boards is that it is absolutely painful to dig through a post until you stumble on a solution, and even then, you're in no way sure it's a good solution. They need to harness that opinion/discussion/off-topic-subject energy in a way that doesn't work against their strategy. I think they are losing a lot of opportunity along the way.

acjohnson55 12y ago
They need to harness that opinion/discussion/off-topic-subject energy in a way that doesn't work against their strategy. I think they are losing a lot of opportunity along the way. I totally agree. This manifests itself in the worst way at http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ http://programmers.stackexchange.com/. Or at least it did when I bothered with that site at all.