Timeline for Fastest Gun in the West Problem
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| May 18 at 23:28 | comment | added | OutstandingBill | Reputation doesn't really matter, when compared to health, paying rent, etc. (says someone with quite a low reputation, despite 39 years as a developer :) What matters is the visibility of useful answers. Short answers that convey enough information to solve the problem at hand are a lot easier to digest than long ones. Long answers can also be valuable, but in a different way. | |
| May 11 at 1:57 | comment | added | WGroleau | @DouglasDaseeco, perhaps that's why I so often see "answers" that make me think the person did not actually read the question. | |
| May 11 at 1:55 | comment | added | WGroleau | Almost every time I have posted a "short, simple, correct explanation," I've been immediately chastised for not including what I would consider obfuscatory verbosity. | |
| Apr 8, 2021 at 13:23 | comment | added | user718628 | @Jonathan. replying to your first comment; don't you think this is sweeping the problem under the carpet? | |
| S Nov 14, 2019 at 12:07 | history | rollback | Omer van Kloeten |
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| Oct 17, 2019 at 23:26 | history | suggested | user632840 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2019 at 12:12 | answer | added | Danilo | timeline score: -9 | |
| Feb 17, 2019 at 23:02 | history | rollback | Nathan Tuggy |
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| Feb 17, 2019 at 22:18 | history | edited | user380893 |
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| Oct 25, 2018 at 16:06 | comment | added | Owl | It's an interesting problem. On the one hand people coming back to the site to understand a problem will upvote the best answer. So the best answer will get more votes overall. However the person asking a question is often >< close to missing a deadline and getting sacked, so for that chap, he wants the quick and dirty solution, not a protracted discourse of the whole life story and history of C++. So I don't think anything needs fixing here. There are necromancer medals on stackoverflow for a reason! | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 13:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| S Mar 9, 2018 at 7:47 | history | rollback | Omer van Kloeten |
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| Mar 7, 2018 at 19:08 | history | suggested | speedstyle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The problem is not specific to SO; and 'despairs' doesn't make sense in this context.
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| Mar 7, 2018 at 17:41 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 10, 2017 at 3:19 | comment | added | Richard Chambers | The problem with quick answer followed by edits that flesh out and elaborate the answer is that people are also quick to downvote an answer resulting in a quick, incomplete answer getting downvoted. | |
| Jul 4, 2017 at 3:45 | history | edited | John Militer |
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| Mar 14, 2017 at 17:27 | comment | added | Douglas Daseeco | The rush to answer is because current scoring incentives are not temporally aware. The resulting dependence on the chronology of answers gives those who slight the question and rush to answer a statistical advantage. The skewing of reputation points based on temporal placement of events is a challenge in learning, the study of it, and the design of learning algorithms. The goal should be (to the degree possible) chronology independence. I tried to introduce that term here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291364/… | |
| Oct 31, 2016 at 19:47 | comment | added | Bradley Thomas | I posted a possible solution here meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/337187/… | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:29 | history | edited | fi12 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2015 at 21:51 | comment | added | Mark Amery | This answer was practically identical to the accepted answer to the same question, but posted 10 seconds later. The accepted answer got 838 upvotes; the linked answer got 8 upvotes. There's no way in hell that the 8300 rep difference between what those answerers earned is fair or represents the value of their contributions. | |
| May 25, 2015 at 12:05 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 14:14 | comment | added | Griffin | I read the first two answers in descending score order (and their comments), then skimmed a bit more and grew weary of the topic. Are there great answers among the other 48 (as of now)? I don't expect I'll ever know. It's not in my nature to go hunting for under-appreciated answers, even though I've felt the sting of under-appreciation on S.O. | |
| Feb 27, 2014 at 20:03 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 27, 2013 at 14:49 | history | edited | cpast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
the "descending time" bit was important, and should be kept (even though it's no longer true, it should at most be struck out)
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| Feb 27, 2013 at 14:47 | history | edited | John Kugelman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
no longer sorted by time of posting, removed that bit
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| Jan 9, 2013 at 13:46 | comment | added | Ramy Al Zuhouri | @Jonathan. But the answers should be sorted considering also the edits then. | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 13:28 | comment | added | Jonathan. | @RamyAlZuhouri, the time to click post and edit is insignificant compared to writing an answer that is long enough and thorough enough to need to click post and edit. (in other words if your in a hurry the answer your writing will be shorter and less thorough so you won't have to edit in the detail in steps anyway) | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 3:38 | answer | added | Ramy Al Zuhouri | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 3:33 | comment | added | Ramy Al Zuhouri | @Jonathan. That's still too bad, we're always in a hurry. | |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 12:38 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 15, 2012 at 10:19 | answer | added | Sahil Mahajan Mj | timeline score: -10 | |
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| S Jul 10, 2011 at 8:40 | history | suggested | Flimzy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 24, 2011 at 19:39 | comment | added | Jonathan. | create a quick answer, and then edit the detail in steps?? | |
| May 21, 2011 at 19:20 | answer | added | TLP | timeline score: -5 | |
| Dec 21, 2010 at 11:06 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 13, 2010 at 17:40 | answer | added | Brian M. Hunt | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 6, 2010 at 17:04 | answer | added | Lance Roberts | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 13, 2010 at 18:41 | answer | added | BlueRaja | timeline score: 808 | |
| Dec 14, 2009 at 16:14 | answer | added | bobobobo | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 26, 2009 at 13:54 | history | edited | Jeff AtwoodStaffMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 26, 2009 at 13:52 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Sep 12, 2008 at 6:46 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 12, 2008 at 6:11 | answer | added | aku | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 12, 2008 at 5:40 | answer | added | helloandre | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 12, 2008 at 2:38 | answer | added | aku | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 12, 2008 at 2:11 | answer | added | Justin Standard | timeline score: 317 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 23:57 | answer | added | aku | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 23:39 | answer | added | quux | timeline score: 102 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 20:44 | answer | added | Wedge | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 17:28 | answer | added | Brettski | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 15:09 | answer | added | Apocalisp | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 15:07 | answer | added | harpo | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 14:46 | answer | added | Loofer | timeline score: 43 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 14:25 | answer | added | Tyler | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 14:14 | answer | added | Josef | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 14:09 | answer | added | OwenP | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 13:48 | answer | added | Jason Cohen | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 13:43 | answer | added | Pollyanna | timeline score: 391 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 13:16 | answer | added | bruceatk | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 12:52 | answer | added | aku | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 12:37 | answer | added | Nick Pierpoint | timeline score: 14 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 12:28 | answer | added | Gulzar | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 12:28 | answer | added | Gaius | timeline score: 22 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 12:26 | answer | added | Mel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 12:04 | answer | added | Martin Marconcini | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 11:53 | answer | added | aku | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 11:50 | answer | added | Omer van Kloeten | timeline score: 19 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 11:41 | answer | added | Unsliced | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 11:13 | answer | added | Martin Marconcini | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 10:53 | answer | added | sdfx | timeline score: 18 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 10:36 | answer | added | Sam Hasler | timeline score: 136 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 10:18 | answer | added | macbirdie | timeline score: 14 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 10:06 | answer | added | Gishu | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 10:04 | answer | added | David Schmitt | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:59 | answer | added | Christian Hagelid | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:59 | answer | added | Vaibhav | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:55 | answer | added | Rik | timeline score: 33 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:46 | answer | added | Vinko Vrsalovic | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:39 | answer | added | tonylo | timeline score: 15 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:30 | answer | added | Mark Ingram | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:27 | answer | added | Bobby Jack | timeline score: 19 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:22 | answer | added | Galwegian | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:20 | answer | added | Mendelt | timeline score: 52 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:18 | answer | added | Chris Roberts | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2008 at 9:12 | history | asked | Omer van Kloeten | CC BY-SA 2.5 |