Timeline for High reputation users having trouble understanding Super User?
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| Jul 22, 2010 at 18:01 | history | migrated | from meta.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Feb 6, 2010 at 7:38 | comment | added | Lance Roberts | I wasn't really thinking of completely non-computer related questions. I was just thinking of answers we'd want to keep on the site. Anything that far off would be deleted anyway. | |
| Feb 6, 2010 at 6:46 | comment | added | Gnoupi | @Lance - let's say somebody asks "where baby come from", on SO, and you have the answer. Are you writing it anyway? Probably a bit extreme, but it illustrates my point. If you answer questions which should be closed... then what for closing in the first place, since you answer it anyway, you satisfied the original poster, who will probably post another one next time, with hope that he will get answer before being closed. | |
| Feb 6, 2010 at 5:11 | comment | added | Lance Roberts | There is no rule against posting answers to a question and voting to close it. I think it's the best thing to do if you have a good answer. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 16:37 | comment | added | Ether | Voting to close one's own question ought to have a badge attached to it, like deleting one's own question. It's just as important. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 15:31 | comment | added | Gnoupi | @Jared - Like I said, commenting, encouraging good behavior is a thing to do. You don't need 10k moderation tools to do that (these are mostly lists, not powers). Vote to close questions which are not matching to the rules, maybe flag them for moderator's attention. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 15:05 | comment | added | Jared Harley | @Ivo - I would ask questions, but anytime I have a question, I end up finding the answer on SU! :) | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:39 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse | @Jared the only other way would be to ask some quality questions or invest some more time to answer some of the harder questions. But I understand that it can be "hard" to gain rep when the top users eat all the lowest hanging fruit... | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:37 | comment | added | Jared Harley | As a 3k+ user, I think part of the problem really does lie with the 10k+ users. I would love to help out more in the community, but my only ability is to vote to close (which I use when appropriate). The problem is, to be more help, I need more rep, and every single question I go to answer has already been hit by a 10k+ user. So my rep gain is slow, and that drives me away from the site. I could always answer the dupe questions and then vote to close, but that doesn't seem right - heck, I even voted to close my own question when I discovered it was a duplicate! | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 13:46 | comment | added | quack quixote | @gnoupi: thank you for leading by example; i'd like to think i've picked up some good habits from you. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 10:23 | comment | added | random | It's rare, but it's always good to see a question closed by users without mod intervention. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 9:34 | comment | added | random | Comments of what the site is and why their question is going to be closed have always garnered an upvote. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 8:55 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse | Know that your comments and flags are appreciated by the closing squad | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 8:50 | history | answered | Gnoupi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |