Timeline for We have bad question closing habits
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| Feb 18, 2023 at 19:51 | answer | added | user152004 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 13, 2022 at 10:40 | comment | added | Boppity Bop | No. You raise a valid point but it is a consequence of the same root problem I posed. Not an alternative. 90% of 1st line of support (which is where people are paid to reject claims) are mediocre at best (or they'd get a better job). Now these people go to SE and game system for say 10k rep. It reinforces delusion as if they know something while they don't. With it many becomes warriors of smoothing everything up to their level of intellect. Which isn't much | |
| Aug 12, 2022 at 21:11 | comment | added | Frank Thomas | @BoppityBop, I actually suspect its a somewhat different impulse, more like the tech support from any vendor are trained to look for any reason to say the problem is someone else's fault and thus "out of scope" for the support they provide. like the website company blaming the browser company, or vice-versa. There may sometimes be a degree of victim blaming, but I don't think imaginary Internet points are as much of a motivator to someone over 10k rep as you appear to. I like it when people read what I wrote, and upvotes are a sign they agree or appreciate it, but point totals are meaningless | |
| Aug 9, 2022 at 14:28 | comment | added | Daniel B | Related meta thread, in case anyone missed it: I think SU has a newbie-biting problem | |
| Aug 9, 2022 at 14:21 | comment | added | Daniel B | Here’s another example. The question 2 hours old and has already accumulated three close votes. Yes, it is lacking. No, OP will not return once it is closed. At least give people seeking help some time to fix their question. You can still VTC tomorrow. | |
| Aug 6, 2022 at 1:48 | answer | added | Lily White | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 4, 2022 at 5:02 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 16 | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 16:47 | comment | added | Frank Thomas | I agree that this is a big problem for the site. We also should not discourage/admonish people from/for answering (while still accumulating close votes) or commenting on questions that are perceived as off topic. as for mod intervention, we've already done the damage to the sites reputation and user's perceptions of it by the time someone reaches out on meta. Maybe my question got reopened, but I'll never forgive its closure. | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 10:04 | comment | added | RL-S | Funny how the timing works here. I had the exact same experience just yesterday. My first question, brief, immediately closed. Made it longer and slightly rephrased it, but it's the same question, now it stayed open. | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/1554663482070646787 | ||
| Aug 2, 2022 at 5:59 | comment | added | O'Rooney | All your examples seem like people getting frustrated with what they perceive as "dumb questions" and just closing out of that frustration. I agree they should not have been. Its pretty difficult to strike this balance, as wikipedia can attest... | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 14:39 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Aug 1, 2022 at 14:24 | answer | added | NotTheDr01ds | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jul 31, 2022 at 10:19 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Sure - but we have a bit of public documentation to point to, and you'd depend on a mod being around. We watch meta too - so the meta post gives you both the space to make your case, and more eyes than just the mods | |
| Jul 31, 2022 at 10:11 | comment | added | gronostaj | @JourneymanGeek It takes 1 diamond vote to close a question immediately, but 5 regular votes to reopen it - it may never happen, and if it does, it takes time and leaves bad aftertaste. If a question is closed with 5 regular votes and I disagree, it's less likely that it was a mistake. Either I'm missing something or there's a disagreement in the community that has to be addressed. Either way a quick reopen isn't the way to go. But with mod♦ voting powers it takes 1 click to close a question by mistake and in such cases I see flagging as the fastest way to get this straight. | |
| Jul 30, 2022 at 23:57 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | for the declined - you do have the rep to vote to reopen right? And its fine to make a case for a specific post to be reopened on meta. Dosen't seem a 'need' to flag | |
| Jul 30, 2022 at 18:00 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | 1/ reopened, 2/ posted a comment asking for missing information. 3/ I voted to reopen that one after the edit was made. Wasn't involved in closing it. | |
| Jul 30, 2022 at 17:41 | history | asked | gronostaj | CC BY-SA 4.0 |