Timeline for Why was “How do you configure a Windows machine for a Linux user?” closed as too broad?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:18 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 7, 2016 at 1:50 | comment | added | Ramhound | @Gilles - Exactly. My statements are simply to encourage more people to get involved in the process. So they understand what comes from those results. | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 23:50 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @StijndeWitt The people who work on the stream of incoming questions are the ones who post the majority of the answers here (most questions get answered because someone saw it on the front page). Some go further and participate in review efforts, to guide newcomers and get rid of the bad questions so that others won't waste any more time on them. The only reason some people can get away without dealing with bad questions is that others have already dealt with them. We're all volunteers here. | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 23:44 | comment | added | Ramhound | We are all the same in my eyes. I just feel you are being awful critically when you really have not seen the type of questions I am talking about. A question can be voted and edited to be opened again by anyone. So no; I am not taking in mind of people I ware of the rules, because I am expected to follow them everyone else should too no matter how long or how much reputation they have | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 23:31 | comment | added | Stijn de Witt | @Ramhound Or, you could listen a bit more to the lesser community members... Not everyone wants to / or is able to participate that much, but they are still part of the community. I am asking you, when you do audit duty (thanks for that btw) to take the majority of users in mind that use SO/SU only occasionally, aren't aware of all the rules, don't fully master the language etc. Give people some slack. Don't be so quick to close. Give a question some time. In the end down votes will do their job. Because voting is the one thing anyone here can participate in. When you close it you lock us out. | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 23:15 | comment | added | Ramhound | My point get enough reputation for audit duties, if you disagree with, the current auditors.....I do have a problem with a extremely low quality question, for many reasons, mainly takes me away from improving a decent question or answer that simply needs a little love to be a super great question | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 22:28 | comment | added | Stijn de Witt |
@Ramhound vote to keep answers and and to keep questions open you feel are high quality. Isn't this the reversed-world? And even if I were to go along with this... You guys close questions before I ever get the chance to vote on them. Remember, I am not continuously refreshing the stream of incoming questions like some of you more active community members do. Also... I have NO problem with question quality. I don't mind the occasional lazy/noob/homework question. I have a problem with overmoderation. Sounds to me like you are saying I have to compete with you guys to 'balance the score'..
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| Jan 6, 2016 at 22:23 | comment | added | Stijn de Witt |
@Gilles Some people have to work on the stream of incoming questions Who are these people? Are there people being paid to answer SO questions? (honest question). For me this is the crux; if you 'digest' the stream of incoming questions like that then yeah I can imagine you get annoyed by vague, broad, etc questions... But I think that only a small minority of people actually work like that. I answer questions when I stumble upon one and I know the answer. If not, I just move along... Current moderation practices seem to favor the viewpoint of the 1st group, even though the 2nd is larger.
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| Jan 6, 2016 at 14:00 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @StijndeWitt Some people have to work on the stream of incoming questions and work out whether they need answering. By closing inappropriate questions, we ensure that only 5 people need to review the bad questions, and not every single potential answerer and every person who does find that answer in a search. | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 13:50 | comment | added | Ramhound | @StijndeWitt - So post quality questions and answers, get reputation, and then vote to keep answers and and to keep questions open you feel are high quality. Unless you become part of the solution you cannot solve the problem you perceive. I could list you about a hundred questions submitted this week that should have never been even asked, and I believe, even you would believe that to be the case. Questions not being on topic is a huge problem for us,questions closed can be reopened, somebody just has to edit them so they are on topic in order for that to happen. | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 10:29 | answer | added | Burgi | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 10:27 | comment | added | Stijn de Witt | Yeah yeah. But when about every other question I see has this banner, then maybe the standards are too high? As a visitor of SO, my no 1 annoyance is overmoderation. Not questions with bad quality. You know why? Because I'm not continuously refreshing the stream of incoming questions to check their quality. I search using Google and, with it's huge dataset and fantastic search heuristics, it filters out the bad questions. The cream rises to the top. | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 9:23 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | @StijndeWitt We close questions when they don't meet the quality standards of SU. That's decided by the community. Questions acceptable some years ago are not always acceptable now (the site has matured and standards have changed). | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 8:45 | comment | added | Stijn de Witt | @DavidPostill Every time I see a 'This question is Closed...' message, I like SO a bit less. YES it does matter! People invested time in this. Why this strong need to overmoderate? What has all this closing of questions brought SO? And how is closing stuff 'building things to last'? Closing is not a creative act, it's a destructive one. | |
| Jan 2, 2016 at 20:11 | comment | added | Moab | Going from Linux to Windows?, sell your guns first..... | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 19:31 | comment | added | fixer1234 | I agree with keeping the answers around. Closing the question doesn't affect that. I did think about how the question wording might be improved, but couldn't come up with something that would make a good on-topic question. Even if it is more focused on a very specific use, it would attract opinion-based answers or a list. Your answer was good to the extent of what it covered. But each person could write a different answer in similar depth based on their own experience and priorities. I think that's what makes it too broad. It's a useful question, but this isn't the right venue for it. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 19:07 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @fixer1234 If you don't like “get most out of it”, please suggest alternative wording. I don't mind the wording. I do mind keeping the answers around, because they're on-topic, vetted and useful. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 19:06 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @DavidPostill Whyever not? This isn't a forum, we're building things to last. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 18:44 | answer | added | randomMod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 18:33 | comment | added | fixer1234 | The question is: "How do you configure a Windows (preferably latest version) machine for a Linux power user, so that s/he can get most out of it?" That's a pretty individualized objective that depends on how the person is going to use it, what they want to get out of it, what specific performance is important to them, etc. The top two answers are based on what's important to the answers' authors. Most of the other answers just prick the surface. This question isn't much different from a survey. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 18:23 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | Does it matter? A 4 year old question that already has two good answers is unlikely to attract any new answers. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 18:17 | comment | added | random Mod | Re-reading it again it is mostly/mainly a list of apps and tweaks needed to have same-same experiences between the OSs | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 18:14 | comment | added | random Mod | How do you define getting the most out of it? | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 17:53 | history | asked | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |