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You are going to ignore our feedback. I am postive my feedback will be ignored, but this sounds like a horrible idea.

The experiment failed because you implemented a half-baked feature, without listening to the feedback you received, and essentionally tried to relaunch the entire Stack Exchange Q&A model overnight. We told you not being able to issue downvotes was a bad idea. We indicated being unable to close the questions was a bad idea. We told you the entire concept of asking a question, seeking stranges opionions on a matter, was a bad idea. You ignored all the feedback.

You allowed users to ask questions that cannot be moderated by the community or the elected community moderators, proceeded to not moderate the content yourself, and then point out question closures decreased? Of course they decreased you created a situation that would only result in the results you were expecting.

So is there an actual demand or did users not understand what they were doing, ended up asking a question seeking an opionion, when they actually wanted to ask a question seeking an actual solution? In my personal experience, every question I looked at, was improperly submitted seeking my opionion.

So you want to turn Stack Exchange communities into Reddit subreddits? I have been a member of forums in the past, they never last the only community I have ever seen last more than 5 years, is Stack Overflow and thats because it's NOT a place for discussions. If threaded discusisons become a reality. I won't be part of the community. I will delete my profile.

I have purposefully been extremely harash in my answer. I wasn't as harsh in my past feedback to the other failed horrible experiments, and those experiements still went live, with the predicated outcomes the community shared. So I have no doubt this new experiement will be implemented despite the community hating it.

You are going to ignore our feedback. I am positive my feedback will be ignored, but this sounds like a horrible idea.

The experiment failed because you implemented a half-baked feature, without listening to the feedback you received, and essentially tried to relaunch the entire Stack Exchange Q&A model overnight. We told you not being able to issue downvotes was a bad idea. We indicated being unable to close the questions was a bad idea. We told you the entire concept of asking a question, seeking strangers' opinions on a matter, was a bad idea. You ignored all the feedback.

You allowed users to ask questions that cannot be moderated by the community or the elected community moderators, proceeded to not moderate the content yourself, and then point out question closures decreased? Of course they decreased – you created a situation that would only result in the results you were expecting.

So is there an actual demand or did users not understand what they were doing, ended up asking a question seeking an opinion, when they actually wanted to ask a question seeking an actual solution? In my personal experience, every question I looked at, was improperly submitted seeking my opinion.

So you want to turn Stack Exchange communities into Reddit subreddits? I have been a member of forums in the past, they never last; the only community I have ever seen last more than 5 years, is Stack Overflow and that's because it's NOT a place for discussions. If threaded discussions become a reality. I won't be part of the community. I will delete my profile.

I have purposefully been extremely harsh in my answer. I wasn't as harsh in my past feedback to the other failed horrible experiments, and those experiments still went live, with the predicated outcomes the community shared. So I have no doubt this new experiment will be implemented despite the community hating it.

The community told you this before you went through with the experiment, with a feature set, that made it impossible to submit our opionion or moderate the questions that were asked. You ignored our feedback.

The community told you this before you went through with the experiment, with a feature set, that made it impossible to submit our opinion or moderate the questions that were asked. You ignored our feedback.

Closures are more user-friendly than they were 12 years ago and usually take far fewer votes to do, but essentially every issue raised in that question and most of the linked questions remain today.

I have no dout this will reach deaf ears, but the closure of a question is not and has never been "unfriendly", the fact even the staff at Stack Exchange see it as a case of being unfriendly deeply worrys me.

Expert Endorsements (a working title), a unique vote reserved for some community members, would be a validation of the question’s future value from the established curators on Stack Overflow. It would be the opposite of a close flag. Getting one means you have created content that is the cream of the crop; it means your question can be found easily and that it should be surfaced to future searchers and learners, because it's good.

Expert Endorsements (a working title), a unique vote reserved for some community members, would be a validation of the question’s future value from the established curators on Stack Overflow. It would be the opposite of a close flag. Getting one means you have created content that is the cream of the crop; it means your question can be found easily and that it should be surfaced to future searchers and learners, because it's good.