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Dalija Prasnikar Mod
Dalija Prasnikar Mod
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This experiment as you have envisioned it, will fail. I hope that you can take feedback given here and make improvements before you launch this.

Good

  • Spam measures
  • Wizard asking users to choose the type of questions
  • No accepted answer
  • No reputation
    • In long term there might be some value in giving reputation for good answers on such posts, but that is not relevant at this moment.

Bad

  • No community based moderation for questions and answers
  • Discussion style format
    • This format emphasizes the question, and answers look more like comments. We don't want casual chit-chat, we want full fledged quality answers even for such content. There is absolutely no reason why this new content wouldn't follow the UI style of existing Q/A (without the ability to accept answers).

Missing

  • Warning that AI generated or assisted (formatting, rephrasing, or similar) content is not allowed on Stack Overflow.

  • Rate limiting

    • Some users will post high amounts of low quality junk and there needs to be a system which will prevent that. Also users who are question banned should be prevented to post new types of questions, otherwise this will be used as a venue for asking questions by those users.

  • Moving posts between regular Q/A and new content type

    • This is critical for newly posted content as there will definitely be newly posted questions which are categorized in a wrong way and community and moderators need a way to correct that. Keeping same format between regular Q/A and new content type would make that possible. In long term this would also allow us to move old, currently not acceptable, but otherwise good content and give it a permanent home under a new content type.

  • Review queue

    • First posts by users (questions and answers) need to go through review queue

  • Sorting by votes

    • Good answers need to be on the top. We need the same sorting options like we have for regular Q/A pairs.

  • Community driven editing

If there is a room for such content on the site(s), and I believe that there is some room for additional content, then such content needs to be of high quality. We don't need a place where anything goes, and this requires community moderation and ability to prevent users who have proven that they are not capable of providing good content to post as they please.

We have content rating system for reason. Hiding downvotes (thumb-downs) is not going to accomplish anything. If someone posts something that is not good they need to know that. Yes, criticism hurts, but that is the only way to have and get something of value.

This experiment as you have envisioned it, will fail. I hope that you can take feedback given here and make improvements before you launch this.

Good

  • Spam measures
  • Wizard asking users to choose the type of questions
  • No accepted answer
  • No reputation
    • In long term there might be some value in giving reputation for good answers on such posts, but that is not relevant at this moment.

Bad

  • No community based moderation for questions and answers
  • Discussion style format
    • This format emphasizes the question, and answers look more like comments. We don't want casual chit-chat, we want full fledged quality answers even for such content. There is absolutely no reason why this new content wouldn't follow the UI style of existing Q/A (without the ability to accept answers).

Missing

  • Warning that AI generated or assisted (formatting, rephrasing, or similar) content is not allowed on Stack Overflow.

  • Rate limiting

    • Some users will post high amounts of low quality junk and there needs to be a system which will prevent that. Also users who are question banned should be prevented to post new types of questions, otherwise this will be used as a venue for asking questions by those users.

  • Moving posts between regular Q/A and new content type

    • This is critical for newly posted content as there will definitely be newly posted questions which are categorized in a wrong way and community and moderators need a way to correct that. Keeping same format between regular Q/A and new content type would make that possible. In long term this would also allow us to move old, currently not acceptable, but otherwise good content and give it a permanent home under a new content type.

  • Review queue

    • First posts by users (questions and answers) need to go through review queue

  • Sorting by votes

    • Good answers need to be on the top. We need the same sorting options like we have for regular Q/A pairs.

If there is a room for such content on the site(s), and I believe that there is some room for additional content, then such content needs to be of high quality. We don't need a place where anything goes, and this requires community moderation and ability to prevent users who have proven that they are not capable of providing good content to post as they please.

We have content rating system for reason. Hiding downvotes (thumb-downs) is not going to accomplish anything. If someone posts something that is not good they need to know that. Yes, criticism hurts, but that is the only way to have and get something of value.

This experiment as you have envisioned it, will fail. I hope that you can take feedback given here and make improvements before you launch this.

Good

  • Spam measures
  • Wizard asking users to choose the type of questions
  • No accepted answer
  • No reputation
    • In long term there might be some value in giving reputation for good answers on such posts, but that is not relevant at this moment.

Bad

  • No community based moderation for questions and answers
  • Discussion style format
    • This format emphasizes the question, and answers look more like comments. We don't want casual chit-chat, we want full fledged quality answers even for such content. There is absolutely no reason why this new content wouldn't follow the UI style of existing Q/A (without the ability to accept answers).

Missing

  • Warning that AI generated or assisted (formatting, rephrasing, or similar) content is not allowed on Stack Overflow.

  • Rate limiting

    • Some users will post high amounts of low quality junk and there needs to be a system which will prevent that. Also users who are question banned should be prevented to post new types of questions, otherwise this will be used as a venue for asking questions by those users.

  • Moving posts between regular Q/A and new content type

    • This is critical for newly posted content as there will definitely be newly posted questions which are categorized in a wrong way and community and moderators need a way to correct that. Keeping same format between regular Q/A and new content type would make that possible. In long term this would also allow us to move old, currently not acceptable, but otherwise good content and give it a permanent home under a new content type.

  • Review queue

    • First posts by users (questions and answers) need to go through review queue

  • Sorting by votes

    • Good answers need to be on the top. We need the same sorting options like we have for regular Q/A pairs.

  • Community driven editing

If there is a room for such content on the site(s), and I believe that there is some room for additional content, then such content needs to be of high quality. We don't need a place where anything goes, and this requires community moderation and ability to prevent users who have proven that they are not capable of providing good content to post as they please.

We have content rating system for reason. Hiding downvotes (thumb-downs) is not going to accomplish anything. If someone posts something that is not good they need to know that. Yes, criticism hurts, but that is the only way to have and get something of value.

Source Link
Dalija Prasnikar Mod
Dalija Prasnikar Mod
  • 28.7k
  • 12
  • 99
  • 140

This experiment as you have envisioned it, will fail. I hope that you can take feedback given here and make improvements before you launch this.

Good

  • Spam measures
  • Wizard asking users to choose the type of questions
  • No accepted answer
  • No reputation
    • In long term there might be some value in giving reputation for good answers on such posts, but that is not relevant at this moment.

Bad

  • No community based moderation for questions and answers
  • Discussion style format
    • This format emphasizes the question, and answers look more like comments. We don't want casual chit-chat, we want full fledged quality answers even for such content. There is absolutely no reason why this new content wouldn't follow the UI style of existing Q/A (without the ability to accept answers).

Missing

  • Warning that AI generated or assisted (formatting, rephrasing, or similar) content is not allowed on Stack Overflow.

  • Rate limiting

    • Some users will post high amounts of low quality junk and there needs to be a system which will prevent that. Also users who are question banned should be prevented to post new types of questions, otherwise this will be used as a venue for asking questions by those users.

  • Moving posts between regular Q/A and new content type

    • This is critical for newly posted content as there will definitely be newly posted questions which are categorized in a wrong way and community and moderators need a way to correct that. Keeping same format between regular Q/A and new content type would make that possible. In long term this would also allow us to move old, currently not acceptable, but otherwise good content and give it a permanent home under a new content type.

  • Review queue

    • First posts by users (questions and answers) need to go through review queue

  • Sorting by votes

    • Good answers need to be on the top. We need the same sorting options like we have for regular Q/A pairs.

If there is a room for such content on the site(s), and I believe that there is some room for additional content, then such content needs to be of high quality. We don't need a place where anything goes, and this requires community moderation and ability to prevent users who have proven that they are not capable of providing good content to post as they please.

We have content rating system for reason. Hiding downvotes (thumb-downs) is not going to accomplish anything. If someone posts something that is not good they need to know that. Yes, criticism hurts, but that is the only way to have and get something of value.