Timeline for Can we remove (or at least soften) the restriction against using Problem in the title?
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replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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Fixup of bad MSO links to MSE links migration
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| Sep 22, 2012 at 13:52 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | And issue questions as well; heh, that's handy; catched two of them at once, and more... | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 13:45 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | I'd rather turn your extremely small problem into a huge one, if we're going to add the title as a "low quality indicator" then why not add it in such way that it would show all questions that have four (or perhaps even five) words or less? Actually, that would catch a lot of those problem questions as well... ;) | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 6:58 | comment | added | slhck Mod | If people can't use "problem", they'll just skirt the "issue" and use that instead. Or "problems" (because they never cared to block the pluralized version, which is even more ridiculous…) — so you could put all these attempts in a queue and let others review that. P0rblem solved. | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 6:55 | comment | added | slhck Mod | @TomWijsman I feel we've been there already. Nobody said that there isn't a quality problem with most of these titles. I don't want to argue about that, because everyone knows. But the thing is: Why would you ever block something legitimate without providing any way to get around the filter? For example, new users can't post images, okay, but they can leave the links and we'll embed them after we check that it's not spam. Plus, the new review queues have been proven super effective. Why not put those "problematic" questions in "low quality"? | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 3:02 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | @slhck: Sounds like the real problem here is that we don't check all question titles posted on a day, which would not only help catch people that are messing around the quality filter instead of improving the quality (most likely a minority) but also we would no longer introduce bad question titles into the site. Because really, those questions consisting of only up to four words and those that don't describe the problem at all; aren't really helpful. Consider that to be a much bigger problem than the problem filter, are you going to care about the little problem or the big one? | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:59 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | @DanielBeck: How many legitimate problem titles are there, really? Not much on SU, I think. | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:58 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | Thanks Oliver, never saw that question pass by. Interesting read. | |
| Sep 21, 2012 at 20:56 | comment | added | slhck Mod | Plus the simple fact that by not allowing the "problem signs", you're just making it harder to actually find the "problem", because people will use other bad titles that aren't as easy to spot. | |
| Sep 21, 2012 at 19:01 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | The statistics aren't grouped by sites. In fact, the user doesn't state what site the stats are for (it's the "meta for all sites" after all, and he mentions other sites in the introduction), or if it's all of them, the distribution of sites in the sample. The user also doesn't consider "actively harmful" edits (or even other edits) where the filter actively harms legitimate problem titles. Given that the data isn't publicly available, it's a pretty worthless one-sided writeup. | |
| Sep 21, 2012 at 18:23 | comment | added | Ben Richards | Yet it still should take negligible effort to allow moderators to edit with the filter disabled, shouldn't it? That is, unless the back-end isn't well extensible (which I somehow doubt is the case). | |
| Sep 21, 2012 at 18:20 | history | answered | Oliver SalzburgMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |