Timeline for Are SE "power users" trying to seed the site with "interesting questions"?
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| Feb 10, 2022 at 17:41 | answer | added | march | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 10, 2022 at 8:31 | comment | added | Discrete lizard | @AndrejBauer I'm not sure if MathOverflow and cstheory.SE are good examples. SE isn't very interested nowadays in supporting more communities that are exclusively academic. Also, are you talking about experience in closed betas or day to day business? Closing is more important in closed betas, it is an (explicit?) part of the process. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 22:01 | comment | added | Andrej Bauer | I second @DavidRoberts here. MathOverflow and cstheory.SE are both quite good at shutting down newcomers who don't know their ways, even though they are respected members of research community (and let me not get started on what students think about these sites). | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 21:58 | comment | added | David Roberts | @Discretelizard sure. But I'm talking from experience with MathOverflow, and from seeing and participating in discussions with people who should be extremely welcome on MO, and whose questions will all be on-topic, but where they expect (and with justification) that they will be shut down/treated badly. I'm not talking people who don't like the "SE framework". It's all well and good about "have one elsewhere", but that's like "if you don't like the new film adaptation, make your own". There's not really another comparable platform to SE. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 14:27 | answer | added | Will Sawin | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 13:45 | comment | added | Discrete lizard | @DavidRoberts There will definitely be people who will not like the SE framework and leave for that reason. However, the solution to getting a community together with those people is to have one elsewhere. While each community should find its own way to implement the various systems of the SE website, it in general is a good idea to at least try to "play it by the book" in these early stages. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 4:59 | comment | added | David Roberts | @V2Blast it will be perceived as hostile, where the intention is or is not. People who feel rebuffed after a good-faith question will not come back to follow-up, and they will tell their friends how bad this place is, etc. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 1:11 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | It's also worth keeping in mind the labor differential between complex questions and easy questions. For research topics, even an expert would take a moment to come up with a deep and answerable question. A lot of the early questions on nascent sites spend time getting the fundamentals down first. That's not necessarily a bad thing, as long as it's done well. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 0:30 | comment | added | Alex Nelson | It looks like around 15 or so of the questions asked (of the first 38 questions) are these "What is bread?" type questions, unfortunately. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 23:46 | comment | added | Will Sawin | Surely the third question, at least, is justified by its nice list of answers | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 23:21 | history | edited | V2BlastStaff |
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| Feb 8, 2022 at 23:20 | comment | added | V2Blast Staff | @AndrejBauer: Closing questions is not inherently a "hostile" action (nor is it a permanent, irreversible state). The authors of a question that is closed may be confused if it's closed without any comments explaining why or suggesting how they can improve it – but the closing process itself is necessary to maintain the quality of a Stack Exchange site. ...That said, if you're not sure whether a particular question on the site should be closed (e.g. for being primarily opinion-based or not being in scope for the site), then this Meta is the right place to discuss that with others. | |
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| Feb 8, 2022 at 20:26 | answer | added | Glorfindel | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 20:18 | comment | added | Andrej Bauer | What I think would help a lot is an FAQ. A lot of these questions belong to an FAQ that a newcomner can be pointed to. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 20:18 | comment | added | Andrej Bauer | I hesitate to massively vote for closing, as closing questions is one of the best ways to make sure that a site is hostile. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 20:16 | comment | added | Discrete lizard | I think these are mostly somewhat naive questions being asked by people who are not experts in the field. If you think these are not good questions, close vote and or comment. In this stage, it is important that people use the close and reopen votes to determine the scope (which is why this privilege is granted at 15 rep on private betas). You can read more about my perspective here: or.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/101/… . So yes, I think this is quite common. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 20:07 | history | asked | Andrej Bauer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |