Timeline for Where do you draw the line between a "stupid" question and an acceptable one?
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| Sep 3, 2013 at 17:18 | comment | added | Ramhound | @Psycogeek - Can you please format this answer? I cannot follow anything after the first part. Pretty much everything you said was your opinion cannot be comprehended.... | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 16:40 | comment | added | Psycogeek | I have a very specific concentration on a very small area of expertise. The idea behind having hundreds of "more active users" is each person has different areas where they are expert on, some problem they can relate to, that Closers cannnot relate anything about, or they would not have voted to close it. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 16:32 | comment | added | terdon | Dude, you have answered a total of 300 questions, you can't tell me you are a novice :) ! Of course there is a need for (good) answers to simple questions. That's what I've been saying, ask one and answer it. All I am saying is that you should only post questions if a) you have an honest query or b) you want to answer it yourself. Otherwise just wait for the user who will actually have that question and let the community answer it. Don't create questions for no reason that's all. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 16:22 | comment | added | Psycogeek | But I am not an expert, I am just another fool user, who would (actually) be better off at Yahoo, But yahoo is drivel :-), because there is no editing, there is no correction, there is no life to the answers, they come they are wrong, they die :-) MSanswers are proliferated by scripted trash nobody in thier right mind would follow the whole scripts for a simple problem. There is a need For good answer to the more simple problems, on a site such as SE type sites. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 16:15 | comment | added | terdon | Man, relax, that is not what I am saying at all. I am saying that if users have simple questions they should ask them and that is when the information will be "imported" into SU, I see no reason to force the process. New users come because they want to ask questions and that's how it should work. All I am saying is that I don't think it is a good idea for experts like yourself to start asking basic questions unless they are willing to answer them themselves. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 16:11 | comment | added | Psycogeek | What is this "first page" that would so greatly affect things? I just explained that you could have thousands of Active users (instead of hit and runs) , a front page would be a joke. Are you saying that the site has no capability to expand? that it is locked down because To Many items would be a hinderance to operation? Then there should be One more site down from "SuperUser" That handles "NormalUsers" I will go there and be happy. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 16:00 | comment | added | terdon | Seriously though, would you like the first page to be filled with questions like "How can I get bold text in word" or "How can I put my computer to sleep"? Yes these are valid questions for inexperienced users but no, I'd rather not have to wade through a load of those when I am trying to solve a specific problem with suspend. That's why we explicitly state that research is expected of users before they post. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 15:57 | comment | added | terdon | Of course! No one said the contrary, any user who can answer (clearly) should, irrespective of their level of knowledge. Hell, I've answered loads of questions on subjects I was not an expert on. I am not really an expert in anything relating to computing, I'm a biologist for F's sake! All I am saying is that posting simplistic questions just to import information into the site is not a good idea. Posting them and answering them clearly yourself is great, please do it. We want a large user base but we also want a site with high quality content. Of the two, the latter is more important. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 15:57 | comment | added | Psycogeek | ""that's what the rest of the net is for"" what purpose would the Stack Exchange sites have for wanting to have less users here? What gain could be had if The answers existed WITHOUT the drivel? It cannot become yahoo and MS answers, by design. But it could have the yahoo and ms NonAnswers Here correctally and answered instead of the drivel and useless junk like they are at the drivel locations. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 15:52 | comment | added | Psycogeek | There are other reasons to have a larger user base. When a person is "just starting" to learn a specific computer related action, that information is fresh on thier mind. They have answers to specific problems , because they are experiencing and dealing with them At that moment. A long term expert in the same field of learning might have moved on and beyond that specific problem, no longer with the simple answer to the simple problem. The larger the user base, regaurdless of the grand gurus, the more questions get answered. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 15:45 | comment | added | Psycogeek | I am not actually for creation of false questions with answers. I am suggesting that in each thousands of users that come hundreds of then would have stayed to answer the lesser questions. The elite teachers and masters of answers, breed smart people who will rise in reputation and take on lesser duties of the elite, leaving the elite to move up further and deal with more importatant aspects of the site. Instead the normal user has no reason to be here. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 15:44 | comment | added | terdon | I don't see where you get this elite thing. You have 3.4k reputation and I have 16.5K but we both started with 1 and worked our way up, so the "elite" did not block us. This means we can ask clear questions and give clear answers. Good for us, if that is what you mean by elite, then yes that's what I want. I don't want every 14 year old from Yahoo! Answers to post their drivel here, that's what the rest of the net is for. If the "normal user" can post useful content they they are very welcome here. If they can't but only want to post "yOu have virus!??!?" I'd rather they stay away. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 15:34 | comment | added | terdon | I don't understand what you mean. What I am saying is that if you feel some information should be on the site, you should add it yourself rather than posting a trivial question and expecting others to spend time on it. You think the site would benefit (and you are likely right), you answer the question. What elite? What back button? I have answered many newbie questions and have even walked quite a few of them through their problem in chat. I mean people who did not know the first thing about their OS. How is that elitist? | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 15:29 | comment | added | Psycogeek | What if it was not "your time" they wasted? because thousands of normal users actually stayed on the site, instead of leaving, because it only serve the elite, who aparentally have no back button on the browser? Instead we are plauged with hit and close and run users who have no reason and no incentive to stay . | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 1:45 | comment | added | terdon | If you want to bring information from the wider internet into SU, collect the information, ask a question and answer it yourself. Such behavior is actively encouraged and is very useful. Posting an obvious question and asking others to do the work for you is another matter. That distracts our attention from others who have real problems and wastes everyone's time. | |
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