Timeline for Is there something off with how reputation is built on Stack Exchange?
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| Aug 7, 2015 at 11:49 | comment | added | Ramhound | @AlexS - So spend your time finding an answer, that you can answer without making comment, that is how you will get reputation. If you are not going to answer questions, what good is reputation, required to comment? | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 11:43 | comment | added | Alex S | @Ramhound - I just dont spend a lot of time on here. I pop in and out and help when I think I can. E.g. productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/8651/… | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 11:35 | comment | added | Ramhound | @AlexS - Are you honestly trying to defend posting a comment as an answer? There are no stupid questions. There might be questions that are not on topic or unanswerable questions, but they are not stupid. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 11:35 | comment | added | Alex S | @Ramhound - You can go on about every place where I posted something as an answer and not a comment because I did not have comment access there. I may lost points, but my intent was to connect and collaborate towards helping them or seeking help. At times, that has led to people connecting back. I have no other way to making the OP come back as I did not have comment access. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 11:33 | comment | added | Alex S | @Ramhound - PS: I dont post things & questions that are simply and easy to find an answer for as I can google and find my way most of the times. Its when I cant move forward on things at all that I do so. So, he can build all the rep he wants on easy questions. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 11:32 | comment | added | Alex S | superuser.com/questions/948456/… @Ramhound - That question has "all the information" of this weird behavior exhibited by Windows 8.1 between 2 machines. I eventually had to copy the files to an external HDD and then copy back instead of direct copy to the D partition of the other HDD. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 10:58 | comment | added | Ramhound | @AlexS - Most of these questions don't even have a positive vote let alone a negative vote. Since I didn't see slhck mention this. Deleted questions count multiple times against your ability to ask new questions, if you keep asking questions, then removing them the system will eventually prevent you from asking new questions. The user in question has more reputation because they post higher quality questions and answers. I won't even comment on your answers, because the first answer I looked at, was a comment submitted as an answer. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 10:54 | comment | added | Ramhound | @AlexS - You only have 5 questions. One I would consider a question that needs a great deal more information before it can be answered one has not activity in over a year with an unaccepted answer and one was a software request | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 9:56 | comment | added | Alex S | @slchk - I will shift and reference several other instances of such experiences that make me wonder how this reputation thing works | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 9:55 | comment | added | Alex S | I dont have any preconceived notions. My experiences are the source of my post here. Let me come back and write in detail after collecting and linking the various experiences and issues with them. PS: Ok. Point taken. I was trying hard not to spell or write that out. Trust me, I did not wish to, but I could not come up with "too chatty" and "off topic in whole different philosophical direction". I'll have to find some way to articulate this when I have more sleep. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 9:52 | comment | added | slhck Mod | To be honest: I am not very happy with you changing the question to something different. "Is reputation only built or assessed by tenure and quantity and not by fewer but well researched, studied and articulated questions and relevant answers?" deserves a careful study, but it has nothing to do whatsoever with a chatty comment thread. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 9:49 | comment | added | slhck Mod | I never told you to confront the user. Why would I do that? Not sure how you come to that conclusion. I'm saying the easiest thing would've been to just raise a flag and move on. Meta is also a place to discuss issues, but you seem to have a very strong preconceived opinion about this other user and their intentions, and I recommend that if you come to Meta to discuss something, you take a more constructive approach and don't accuse users of just wanting to get reputation, and call them "morons". | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 9:40 | comment | added | Alex S | I do not know "too chatty" and other all things about StackExchange. On the other hand, I am not too happy about how StackExchange reputation scoring seems to work. I have frequented online forums since way before StackExchange came around. But, somehow quality of a persons knowledge and articulation has no bearing, while apparently people with tenure and quantity accumulated with excessive commenting have a field day. PS: One place you tell me I am confrontational, and now you tell me I should have confronted the user there itself. I am confused. I thought Meta is for such issues | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 9:31 | comment | added | slhck Mod | Please, read the title of your question here again: "Why does this off-topic member have higher rep than me?" — this just calling for trouble, when all that it would've needed was a "too chatty" flag. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 9:28 | comment | added | slhck Mod | I don't think you understand my point. I agree that the user's comments got a little out of hand—the comment thread is not the place to detail your philosophy about computing. You haven't confronted the user in the comment thread either and I never said that; you're doing it here. You are overreacting about a thing that could've been easily dealt with. About your question, I presume it's the lack of actual body text. It seems more like a list to me, and it's hard to parse the actual question out of it. Also, out of the (non-deleted) questions in your account, only this one was downvoted. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 8:40 | comment | added | Alex S | Also, I keep getting negative so many times for well-researched, studied questions and answers. To be honest my experience of 'participating' on Stack Exchange sites is way below the technical php/ vbb forums I usually frequent. Back in the day I've written device drivers in Assembler and have research papers to my name, but it really bothers me how people act on Stack Exchange and reputation is awarded. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 8:37 | comment | added | Alex S | I have not confronted him at all. If you look at my comments I've just mentioned - 'What are you talking about?' He is way off-topic and just throwing unrelated junk. A wrong answer or a different approach to tackle an issue or question is understandable. An essay on his life philosophy has not applicability to migrating Chrome settings. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 8:16 | history | answered | slhckMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |