Timeline for Please don't turn new user's questions into audit tests
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| Jul 1 at 16:23 | comment | added | bertieb | @Dominique "Therefore I'd like to ask a bit more friendliness against (mostly new) people" -- this is fine and laudable; "e.g. making sure that typical beginners questions (her reputation equals 1 (!!!)) cannot become audit tests!" -- this is entirely orthogonal (irrelevant) to the statement that precedes it. Audits have nothing to do with how friendly people are, nor long term attitudes. They are to detect careless/robo reviews. Instead, change your approach; it would be very backward to change the design of the audit system to accommodate one user who says they "go back afterwards" | |
| Jul 1 at 14:59 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | See, part of the problem is, you're trying to use 'ok' as 'skip' - which would not be an audit failure either | |
| Jul 1 at 14:37 | comment | added | Dominique | The "share feedback" option is indeed appropriate for this case, but you know how it goes: "This question needs some more information. I'll say that it's ok and later on I'll add a comment explaining which more information is needed.", that's a typical way I deal with such situations, but obviously when the question already turned into an audit test, I'm dealing with an audit failure :-( | |
| Jul 1 at 14:31 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Thats to say, if someone dosen't know how to swim, do you throw them into the water, or make sure they don't drown first? | |
| Jul 1 at 14:30 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | The share feedback option might be more appropriate? | |
| Jul 1 at 14:29 | comment | added | Dominique | I have the firm impression that the last years, StackExchange forums have become very harsh against new people: regularly I see new people being harassed for asking a simple question, as if StackExchange fora are just meant for the high-rep longterm users. The simple fact that a question like "I have a problem. Please help!" becomes an audit test is just a simple example of this en-harsh-ing mentality. Therefore I'd like to ask a bit more friendliness against (mostly new) people, e.g. making sure that typical beginners questions (her reputation equals 1 (!!!)) cannot become audit tests! | |
| Jul 1 at 14:23 | comment | added | Dominique | This is where I disagree with a major part of the longterm StackExchange users and moderators: when a person asks a very general question (typically out of panic) I tend to ask some questions (like the ones you mentioned: "Is it a desktop or a laptop? Please give some information about the model and/or operating system. ...". I admit, there are many people asking questions like "I have a question and I'm to lazy even to open Google, so you StackExchange guys just do my homework!", so I try to distinguish panic and lazy questions (although this is not always easy). | |
| Jul 1 at 14:17 | history | answered | Journeyman GeekMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |