Timeline for How to handle users appropriating other users' correct answers
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| Feb 15, 2018 at 18:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/964209443276648448 | ||
| Feb 12, 2018 at 16:15 | answer | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 23:34 | comment | added | Justin Ohms | "The vast majority of the time, the system works surprisingly well" that seems like a great reason to not try harder to make it more inviting to participants | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 16:34 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 2:45 | comment | added | Ramhound | @JustinOhms Answers that are incorrect are unlikely to be well received. There isn’t a game. Good answers get upvotes | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 22:14 | comment | added | fixer1234 | HNQs can have unusual side effects, and you happened to experience an unusual confluence of circumstances. The vast majority of the time, the system works surprisingly well. 6) Even though it may not seem like it at first glance, you were a beneficiary, not a victim. It is normally rare for an answer like yours to get 5 upvotes. Even great answers often receive no upvotes. It is also rare for a wrong answer to get extreme upvotes. 7) Take a step back. Read the feedback here to better understand the process. Focus on the long-term big picture rather than a single, unusual situation. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 22:14 | comment | added | fixer1234 | 1) You did help people, and got 5 upvotes for it. You posted a terse, barebones answer and received more upvotes than it would have otherwise received. 2) There isn't a game strategy that works reliably. Posting an early, wrong answer could just as well have resulted in heavy downvotes. 3) There was no plagiarism. 4) The community values answers that educate, that are easy to understand and implement, that are visual, etc. If you had done that, Appleoddity would have had nothing to add and you would have received even more upvotes. 5) No system is flawless. (cont'd) | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 21:45 | comment | added | Justin Ohms | Sounds like a seriously broken system. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 21:45 | comment | added | Justin Ohms | Oh see I was trying to help people not play a game. If I want to play the game I have to use strategy. So it sounds like a recommended strategy is... 1. Post an answer as quickly as possible even if it is wrong. 2. Watch the question and modify my answer to incorporate other peoples answers as my own. (Oh but make sure to google in a little more detail and some pictures so I don't get caught plagiarizing) 3. Completely change my wrong answer to a correct answer instead of just upvoting the correct answer. 4. Give no attribution. Sweet now I know the rules thank you very much. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 21:17 | comment | added | fixer1234 | BTW, Appleoddity's answer also greatly expands on what you posted, including additional research. So your answer provided the kernel, but it wasn't a matter of simply taking credit for your answer. Correctness is just the entry hurdle. What you do beyond that can contribute more to what the community values in an answer (upvotes). If there was an "unfairness in the system", it was that an incorrect answer attracted substantial upvotes. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 20:58 | comment | added | fixer1234 | But you also benefited from Appleoddity's answer, because it contributed to the HNQ traffic (despite being wrong). The relative vote counts indicate that it may have been the actual HNQ attraction. Without HNQ status, your terse, unillustrated answer likely never would have received 5 upvotes, even though it was correct. Sometimes, things work in mysterious ways. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 20:58 | comment | added | fixer1234 | From the views and vote count, the question was a Hot Network Question. Why certain questions become wildly popular is often not clear. But when they do, the thread's posts can accumulate unusually high upvotes within the first day, then views and voting rapidly taper off. Wrong answers can acquire high numbers of upvotes. A correct answer after the peak traffic might garner relatively few. Answers with pictures tend to attract more upvotes. Appleoddity's answer benefited from being early on a HNQ and looking like a high quality answer, despite being incorrect. (cont'd) | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 18:08 | answer | added | allquixotic | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 17:36 | history | asked | Justin Ohms | CC BY-SA 3.0 |