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 12:56 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse | I agree we should improve the quality of some questions just for the sake of quality. Any high rep user can pitch in with that. I would almost suggest flagging for editorial improvement! | |
| Feb 6, 2010 at 0:07 | comment | added | random | Users say SU has lost or has no focus. Isn't that what an editorial leadership provides? One that is supposedly the reason behind appointing How-To Geek as one of the mods? But he's not really there unless it's to post a reference to one of his articles as an answer. @ivo | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 17:31 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse | Uh what is it you exactly mean? @random | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 15:28 | comment | added | random | Isn't there supposed to be another mod that's the "editorial yin" to the craziness on SU? @ivo | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:56 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse | On of the problems is that SU-users tend to be gadget freaks or people trying to do everything with a computer and now throw all there questions to the site. Also other SU-users are likely to be able to answer their questions, but it's just not what this site is for. It would also help if we got more of those question you regularly see on social.microsoft or technet, which are more within the scope of the site. Making all these borderliner cases just random noise within the vast amounts of appropiate questions | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:51 | comment | added | alex | @David I agree. SU has no idea what it wants to be. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:47 | comment | added | David Thornley | I do think that one of SU's problem is the lack of a central focus. SO is about programming, and SF about professional system administration, and these are understandable. SU is about hardware and software that don't relate to those. There also are fuzzy borders which don't completely make sense: why asking how to play an old computer game is different from asking how to run an old HVAC calculation program, for example. Finally, SO attracts programmers and SF attracts admins, who are task-oriented like the site is supposed to be, while SU attracts all sorts of computer fans. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:32 | comment | added | quack quixote | @random hahaha ... no, it means the @ notification feature requires a Display Name to work. i ain't got one (it's why i gots the tilde). | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:30 | comment | added | random | But does that mean the tilde needs to be stripped? @qua | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:29 | comment | added | quack quixote | @alex: nope, i sure don't. one of many things i have to give up for the tilde, like anti-unicorn protection. :) | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:26 | comment | added | alex | @~quack they stick out way too much, unfortunately. And some of the bad users are high-rep ones. At least that is my opinion. Don't feel offended, I'm not including you. (by the way, do you get @replies?) | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:21 | comment | added | quack quixote | @alex: bad users will always exist, and they'll stick out more with a smaller userbase. that's all i'm getting at. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:09 | comment | added | alex | @~quack it's not about the size of th userbase, it's about their lack of willingness to change their behavior for the better. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 14:08 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse | I always wouldn't want to disregard the efforts of the other 30 frontpage users who are doing their duties! They make it possible to keep the noise to a minimum. However, if these highly active users would participate as well, it would help a great deal | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 13:56 | comment | added | quack quixote | fair points, but remember that SO is (what, a year?) older than SU. that alone accounts for the smaller user base, and it means that comparing the current SU community's behavior with the current SO community is irrelevant. instead, we need to compare the current SU behavior with that of SO when it was SU's age (accounting for lessons learned on the part of organizers and mods) and consider the current SO behavior as where SU might be in another (what, a year?). | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 13:51 | comment | added | Gnoupi | However, the question here is to educate dedicated users, who are coming regularly, not the occasional "mess" that you refer to. People who are managing the sites are 1000-3000+ users, people who come regularly to answer questions. And this panel of people is worth educating. Don't reduce SU to a simple "noise". | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 13:51 | comment | added | Gnoupi | That's a quite negative opinion, that I would call quite uninformed, based on the usual "SU is just a messy SO". The fact that there is a broader range of acceptable subject doesn't mean you can't have dedicated people following rules. Yes, there is a bigger noise on SU, this is caused by the wider audience. Voting an answer is possible for anyone with 15 reputation, so basically anyone who asked one correct question. So yes, there will be silly upvotes, nothing to do about it. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 13:34 | history | answered | ベレアー アダム | CC BY-SA 2.5 |